John Sandford Quotes
A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
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Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.
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I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.
