Nelson DeMille Quotes
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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For filming, we have to wear a lot more makeup than we usually would. At night, I have to go home and take off all the makeup and take my hair out from my bun and just get out of the dancewear and everything.
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
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Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
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It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.
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Emotions are triggered by what we like to call emotionally competent stimuli, that is, objects or situations that can be real, like in front of you, or be in your mind when you think and you recall, and they act on brain devices that were designed by evolution.
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I've always been one of those people who wondered 'What if...'
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But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.
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Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.
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I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form.
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If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'
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I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
