John D. MacDonald Quotes
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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When I have a bad show, I can't wait until I can get back on stage to forget about it.
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My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
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The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Year' award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO.
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.
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The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.
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It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want to wear beautiful clothes.
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Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.
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I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me.
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I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is going on with the president [Donald trump] and the parallels with [Richard] Nixon's presidency, I needed to know more about the man.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
