Martin Cruz Smith Quotes
I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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I've been racketeered on.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.
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I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.
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There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.
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Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.
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I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.
