Ken Follett Quotes
I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.
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It is so gratifying for me the degree to which the Minions have been embraced. It's almost unprecedented in the CG animated world. It's amazing. That's really all a creator hopes for, that their characters grow beyond them. It's like Darth Vader and Batman. They've gotten bigger than their creators.
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I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.
