James Rollins Quotes
I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
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It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.
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I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.
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I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.
