Ken Follett Quotes
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
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I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
