Nelson DeMille Quotes
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.
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I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
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I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
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More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
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I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.
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Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
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Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
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Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available.
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Part of the thing that's magic about TechStars is it's about a community that wants to make itself better.
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That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.
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Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
