Jeffery Deaver Quotes
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.Jeffery Deaver
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
iO Tillett Wright -
I love my wife, I love my kids.
Ted McGinley -
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
Dana Carvey -
I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
Gary Bettman
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
Jack Welch -
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
A. R. Rahman -
Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
Gabby Douglas -
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
Jack Schwartz -
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
Larry Ellison -
'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
Rachael Taylor -
My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
Gary Locke -
A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can't do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.
J. Michael Straczynski -
The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
Imelda Marcos -
When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
Dan Hawkins
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Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
Dennis Eckersley -
We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.
Bonnie L. Oscarson -
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball -
It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
Daniel Libeskind -
It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
Jeff Dunham -
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.
Jeffery Deaver