Nelson DeMille Quotes
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.
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Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.
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Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone.
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I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.
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I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
