John Sandford Quotes
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
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During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.
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What have we achieved? ... In his world, in his culture, this is a major step. From our perspective it isn't.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
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I was a newspaper editor in the Army, and I know something about the Army PR culture.
