Ken Bruen Quotes

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

Ken Bruen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: 1951

Topics

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Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

Jillian Michaels

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I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.

Jesmyn Ward

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When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.

Andrew Nikiforuk

YourselfFatYouLazyLittleSlaves

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

Stu Jackson

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Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There's no story there. You've got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables, and that's it. They don't know how to work. CZW is trash.

Triple H

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This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

Lisa Kleypas

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I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

Joss Whedon

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I never pay a fortune for clothes.

Joss Stone

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I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

David Wilkerson

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I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

Deborah Norville

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Around 2000, I was working on cartoons like 'PB&J Otter' and 'Doug.'

Christopher McCulloch

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The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.

Bob Filner

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