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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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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There is a reason for everything.
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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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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I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.
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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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But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system-and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.
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Asking the government to fix our economy is like asking an editor to fix a movie, but in this case, the editor's not even of one mind.
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I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
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I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
