Ken Follett Quotes
Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would think that the cheese man ate cheese but you wrong.
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Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.
