Michael Connelly Quotes

I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the day before, and that gives some momentum for the day.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 21, 1956

Topics

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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Ambrose Bierce

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I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

Solange Knowles

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Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

Russell Smith

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There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.

Rupert Friend

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With ballet, you're really focused on the inner thigh and butt and just lifting and lengthening everything, including your arms. You're not using weights, but holding up the weight of your own arms is a challenge.

Mary Helen Bowers

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I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a lot.

Mike McCarthy

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A lot of people didn't know why I went to Cal. The Bay Area, Silicon Valley, I wanted to put myself in that position where I'm not only successful on the court but off the court.

Jaylen Brown

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Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.

Josh Trank

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If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

Dolores Huerta

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In competition, you see people who win and lose, and you have to learn how to lose gracefully. You have to be able to come back in the day and compete again, not hold a grudge, and put everything into the next fight.

Sean Duffy

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Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Thomas Steinbeck

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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Thomas Huxley

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