Jeffery Deaver Quotes
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
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All physical activity begins with the body's core. I maintain the strength in my core so that I can jump, run, start, stop, and accelerate at the highest levels.
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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
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The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.
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The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.