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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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
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When I'm traveling, I won't miss an opportunity to try great pasta.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.
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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.
