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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.
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I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.
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What I do is dangerous for sponsors, dangerous for editors. But I'm really a radio kid. I grew up on radio, not TV. Ultimately, I'll probably do radio.
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What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.
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One of the benefits to ordering food in New York is that you can get food 24/7.
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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?'
