Nelson DeMille Quotes

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

Nelson DeMille

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• I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Different
  • Real
  • Friends

• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Passion

• I love the Americans. They are my best friends.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Americans

• If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Friends
  • Question
  • Party

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Life
  • Family
  • Love

• The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Gossip

• I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Lifestyle

• I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Friends

• I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Friends
  • Road

• He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • DIsliked

• You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Friends
  • You
  • See

• I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Friends
  • New
  • New Friends

• I was the ladies' man in school. I always had friends; people looked up to me.

  

  Marques Houston
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Good
  • Music
  • Friends

• As long as we believe it is food that causes us to overeat, we are lost. Television, friends, and weather seem pretty unrelated to what we eat. That’s why they have such a powerful effect on us.

  

  Brian Wansink
  • Friends
  • Food
  • Television

• While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Soul
  • Understanding

• I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

  

  Nelson DeMille
  • Friends