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Ken Follett Quotes

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: welsh
Birth: June 5, 1949

Topics

Life Black And White People Villain

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

Andrei Codrescu

Birthday Friend Party Lucky Kid Get

I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off.

Work Beginning Hand Get Off Like

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

Time School High School Electricity

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

Family Mother Time Day Talent War

It is ironic that so many politicians claim to defend traditional Christian values of 'faith and family.' In fact, a radical antifamily ideology permeates Christ's teaching, and the early Christian tradition often set faith and family against each other.

Stephanie Coontz

Family Faith Christian Values Early

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

Truth You Mouth Sometimes Hard Eat

I watched 'Return Of The Living Dead.' That one's cool, man. I like that one.

Jonathan Levine

Man Cool Living Dead Return Like

PGA of America has been very good to me; played some of the Junior Ryder Cups, and those go down as some of the best experiences I've had on a golf course.

Good Best Me Golf America Down

I'm not really one to go out in public in dresses too often. I definitely mix it up between masculine and feminine all the time, but wearing a dress goes a little bit too far.

Time Dress Go Dresses Out Up

As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.

Chelsea Manning

Identity Growing Up Growing Young Up

My life has gotten so much better since I turned 40.

Life Better My Life Much Since

Lollapalooza, that was one of my worst shows. We just played at, like, 3 in the afternoon; it was like the hottest, most miserable thing. My shoes were melting. I just thought I was going to die. It was the most horrible experience. I lasted, what, four songs? In front of quite a lot of people. That was one of my least favorites.

Alison Mosshart

Shoes Experience People Thought Die

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