Jeffery Deaver Quotes
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
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The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.
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I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.
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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
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I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
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I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country - something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning - is the all-powerful elite narrative.
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Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.
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We all want a non-fragmented solution, but the utopian version of a single blockchain to rule them all is undesirable and impractical.
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I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.
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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
