Ken Follett Quotes
In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I grew up with all kinds of people.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.
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Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
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Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.
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Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
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I really looked up to Grace Kelly when I was growing up. I thought she was just so beautiful and elegant. I wanted to grow up to be like her.
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In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
