Jeff Abbott Quotes
No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy - the American middle class and those struggling to enter it.
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When you send out real love, real love will return to you.
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To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
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I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
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No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.
