Harlan Coben Quotes
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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You are just your intelligence.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
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I'm a realist and I always have been.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.