Ken Follett Quotes
Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
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I've always had great faith in people.
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It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
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You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.
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Greatness comes with discipline.
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Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.
