Jeffery Deaver Quotes

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Brother

• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Speak

• I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Mind
  • Dad
  • Proud

• I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Strong
  • Running
  • City

• The way I look at it you can always get better.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • You
  • Better
  • Look

• Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Nobody
  • Misfortune

• I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

  

  Wally Amos
  • You
  • Lost
  • Company

• I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Best
  • Impossible
  • Characters

• It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Food

• People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Work
  • Power

• I was afraid to express myself for a while.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Myself
  • Afraid
  • Express

• I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Response

• I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Career
  • Short
  • Strive

• If I've got something do. I'm going to attack it. I'm going to attack that stress.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Stress

• Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

  

  Maury Yeston
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Titanic

• 'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Trying
  • Challenge
  • Positive

• I thought The Big Short deserved a nomination because Adam MacKay is one of the best filmmakers. A lot of what he does deals in comedy and he co-produces with Will Farrell, people don't really give it the credit that it deserves. I think that they actually do great screenwriting and they make great films, very entertaining.

  

  Bun B
  • Filmmakers
  • Nomination
  • The Big Short

• If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

  

  Chanakya
  • Good
  • Value

• Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

  

  Jeffery Deaver