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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If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
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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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Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.
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In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
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I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.
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Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.
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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.'
