John Sandford Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.
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It does make you a better director and a better actor.
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Moreover, regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age - after a matter of ten or fifteen years - they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.
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Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
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You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
