James Rollins Quotes
I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Bling is good.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.
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It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
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It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
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Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.
