Ken Follett Quotes
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable.
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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
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If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
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I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.
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After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
