J. A. Konrath Quotes

I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.

J. A. Konrath

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I felt so contained at home. I always really felt like I couldn't be myself at home, so I was always quiet. I remember I used to sit in my room and listen to Bone Thugs and close the door.

Jermaine Fowler

HomeMyselfDoorRememberQuietSit

Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

Michael Behe

MeasureSkinProteinMadeLarge

The TV audience is way bigger than a book audience, and no matter what I do, I'm always thinking if this will help people read my books.

Michael Connelly

PeopleBookThinkingHelpWillWay

I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money.

Steve Jurvetson

HistoryImprovementMoneyFocusEasy

African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka.

Tracie Thoms

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I'm lucky enough to have some celebrity light around me. I can go on a platform and say what I think to represent these voices that can't be heard.

Trudie Styler

LightMeThinkEnoughI CanGo

'E pluribus unum' is perhaps the most obnoxious motto the Founders could have come up with, as far as liberals are concerned. They don't mind the e pluribus part - they love to note the things that divide and separate us. But they positively despise the unum part.

Mike Gallagher

LoveMottoMindUpThingsUs

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

Luis Suarez

PassionRegretYouSometimesThings

I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 'the Ukraine' until I was there, and one of the Ukrainian college students I got to be good friends with, he said, 'Do you say I'm going back to the Texas,' and I said, 'No.' He said, 'We don't say we're going back to the Ukraine, either.'

Louie Gohmert

GoodCollegeTexasFriendsYouBack

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

Jason Calacanis

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I'm an everything Baltimore fan.

Josh Charles

EverythingFanBaltimore

I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That I'm athletic, that I'm fast, and I'm relentless.

Jon Beason

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