Paula Hawkins Quotes
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
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When I was playing for the reserves, if you got a call-up you got a straight £30. I'd never been paid for football!
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Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.
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The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity. (p. 135)
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When I write, I imagine places more than people.
