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Ken Follett Inspirational Quotes (45)

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What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
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One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
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President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.
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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
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She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
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There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
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Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie
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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
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I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
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The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
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A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.
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In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
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She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.
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Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
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To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
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Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
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Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?
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