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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It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
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You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.
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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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Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
