John Sandford Quotes
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I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
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I know all the critics.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
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Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!
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If I'm happy with what I'm putting out and proud of it - that is becoming enough for me. It's testing myself, but I'm ready to do it, whereas I wasn't ready before. Sometimes it's feigned confidence, but if I make a decision, I can do anything.
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I think I'm a good Canadian, but I'm not the greatest Canadian.
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And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.
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It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?
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I'm somewhat depressive.
