Michael Connelly Quotes

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.

Michael Connelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth

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In 100 billion years, the universe will be a very strange place.

John C. Mather

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If I was counselling an individual, and my purpose was to help that individual, the most important thing would be that you should save more. Because don't expect that your retirement will follow those trajectories that some advisers are telling you.

Robert J. Shiller

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My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

Maurice Greene

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I make mistakes - I have made a lot of mistakes - but I am a good person, and I will persevere.

Josh Gordon

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The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Chuck Daly

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I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

Tyga

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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.

Lynda Barry

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When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

Junior Seau

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It's important to have IT knowledge; it's important to increase every government agency's IT capability.

Grace Poe

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I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

Esther Rolle

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It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the formal political arena in a way that would disperse power and engage with people in their own lives.

David Blunkett

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