Ken Follett Quotes
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
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Songs say what our emotions can't. I love that about music.
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I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.
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I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.
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Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.
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An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
