Jeffery Deaver Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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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.
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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.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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I was afraid to express myself for a while.
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I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?
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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.
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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.
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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
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Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
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The best assurance the role of minorities can be given is that they will not be viewed as minorities but as citizens.
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Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
