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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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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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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When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.
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You cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.
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My goal is to try new things, to make people forget their problems, make them laugh, and for them to talk about it the next day.
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Look at these ISIS people. These people are ruthless. They don't operate by any sort of normal civilized code. That's the world. There's a shadow world that exists out there.
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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.
