Ken Follett Quotes
I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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We ought not to desire the impossible.
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Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.
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There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.
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I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
