Brad Meltzer Quotes
But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one – because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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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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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.
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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
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There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.
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But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one – because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'
