David Baldacci Quotes

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

David Baldacci

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• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Latin America

• Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Future
  • Eye

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Faith
  • Identity
  • Young

• We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Professional
  • Successful

• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Night
  • Black
  • Party

• We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Way
  • Always
  • More

• I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • World
  • Care

• People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • History
  • Comedy

• If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Internet
  • Check
  • Spell

• It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my voice, but it also kind of gives me a little bit of time to myself - and you get to see a city.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Important
  • City

• When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Wonder

• Certain exterior impulses hit the economic mechanism and thereby initiate more or less regular oscillations.

  

  Ragnar Frisch

• I tend not to say much on the phone now. If I leave a message, it's benign. You edit yourself according to the new circumstances of the new world. I think it would be quite good to get some sort of laws.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • World
  • Good

• I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

• I work all summer and throughout the whole season to be prepared for the challenges that I have to face.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Work
  • Summer

• I'm a complete foodie, but I'm a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that's amazing.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Amazing

• When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Caring

• Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make - much less make that make-believe real.

  

  Kevin Young
  • World
  • Believe
  • Real

• Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Christian
  • Winter
  • Easter

• One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.

  

  Jay Rockefeller
  • World
  • America

• At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Kind
  • Couple
  • Modern

• Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

  

  Knut Hamsun
  • Important
  • Today

• But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

  

  David Baldacci