Robert Crais Quotes

I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't work. Finally I realized I should go back to all the techniques I'd learned.

Robert Crais

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 20, 1953

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Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

Jerry Lee Lewis

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Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

John Dingell

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It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

Andre Rieu

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As a kid, I felt really weird.

Mayim Bialik

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Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

Andy Serkis

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Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.

Sol LeWitt

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There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies and big bands. We did the Captain and Tennille as well, but it ended up being about 50-50.

Toni Tennille

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I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Robert Winston

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We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

Ron Kind

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'Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will.

Joshua Malina

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There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.

Jason Aldean

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We always felt that there was some hanky-panky going on with our money. We were the No. 1 group in the world, but we weren't paid like that.

Dennis Edwards

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