John D. MacDonald Quotes
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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I've always taken direction pretty well.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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I do movies I would go to see.
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I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.
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In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
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That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
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Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''
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I'm not a big 'cry on a shoulder' person. I'm very introverted when it comes to my own stuff.
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We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.
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Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
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There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
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The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.
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I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.
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I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.
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Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.
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Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
