Frederick Forsyth Quotes
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
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Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
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When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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When I joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1992, there were no female four-star generals. I still remember the day in 2008 when a woman first achieved that rank.
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When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
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There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don’t want.
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I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.
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In marriage, if you think you have married the wrong person but choose to treat him or her like the right one, that person will turn into the right one and you.
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I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.
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I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
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The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
