Ken Follett Quotes
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.Ken Follett
Quotes to Explore
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
Wayne Newton -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
I'm an artist at heart.
Lance Reddick -
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
Samantha Power -
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky -
Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
Viggo Mortensen
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
Val Kilmer -
I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
Ramon Rodriguez -
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
Tatyana Ali -
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy -
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
J. William Fulbright
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
Sam Harris -
At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
Kate Bosworth -
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. Howe -
I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
Kaitlin Olson -
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
Gael Garcia Bernal
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To such a memorial as exists here we can only come in a spirit of humility and of gratitude. We can not hope to repay those whom we are assembled to honor. They were moved by a noble conception of human possibilities and human destiny. But we can undertake to find what was their inspiration and seek to make it our guide. By that they will be recompensed.
Calvin Coolidge -
I keep hearing about muthafucking Harry Potter. Who is this muthafucker?
Snoop Dogg -
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
Max Bill -
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
Ted Cruz -
Imagine your son becomes your guardian, no matter my capabilities as a woman, I am still enslaved to somebody else. Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free.
Manal al-Sharif -
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
Ken Follett