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Ken Follett Quotes

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

Ken Follett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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War American America Place Serious

I was a very shy child.

Jim Parsons

Child Shy Very

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

John Grisham

Good Death Story Insurance Goal Try

I kind of feel like I found my cause in life servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.

John M. Grunsfeld

Life Space Feel Kind Like Cause

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

John Perry Barlow

Culture Ethics Society You Know Our

I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.

Rob Zombie

Work Love Music Great People Think

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

Robert Wilson

Lose Intellectual Get Intensity Too

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Mason Cooley

False Blunt Statement Other Any

At first, when 'Boxer' came out, people were a little let down, and we worried that it might be the end for us. But then it began to grow on people. 'Boxer' bought us our creative freedom.

Matt Berninger

Freedom Creative People End Grow

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

Matt Bomer

Age Being Different Bad Early Wrong

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

Donna Leon

Loyalty City Feel Affection Rather

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

History Story Way Like Depends

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

Debra Granik

Life Love Character Humor Comedy