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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I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
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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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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.
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We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
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We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
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Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.
