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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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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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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Yes, I was inspired by Jack London and still love reading his books. Ernie Banks is another hero because I lived in Chicago for two years as a kid, and I loved that he was the Cubs' loyal underdog and one of the first African-Americans to make that breakthrough.
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I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it's undoubtedly doing exactly what it's supposed to do according to the law.
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
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After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
