Nelson DeMille Quotes
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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I hope I'm always learning something.
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For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
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I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
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In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.
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Be the best teammate you can be, be the best player you can be, and just be as supportive and encouraging for the people who are playing.
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Astrobiology is a great point of contact for science outreach. The public is naturally interested in extra-terrestrial life. Astrobiology provides an accessible point of access that leads to deeper questions.
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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.
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Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security. 2.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
