John Sandford Quotes
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.
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It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.
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I would see these people calling me 'fat' and calling me horrible names. And this one page called me 'Miss Piggy,' and they only referred to me as 'Miss Piggy.' I was a 16-year-old girl. I did not know how to deal with that, and I was already insecure about my weight.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
