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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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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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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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case.
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It takes longevity to earn respect.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I don't spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.
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Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
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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.
