Nelson DeMille Quotes
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.
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Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?
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As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
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Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.
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I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.
