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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You don't really know when the last time you're going to do something is; the middle can often be a bit blurry. Firsts are very potent.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
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I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn't get a series until I was 23, which was 'The West Wing.'
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When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?
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I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.
