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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The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.
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To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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I had challenges to overcome as a child, and that was good.
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I will continue to use my voice. I believed from the beginning that the lawsuit was an attempt to muzzle my voice, and I come from a people who have struggled and died in order to have a voice in this country. And I refused to be muzzled.
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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?'
