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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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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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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A 'first meeting' is, by definition, a one-time opportunity, and there's no going back. Over the course of my career, I've been on both sides of inspiring first meetings that energized me for the next stage of a partnership and disappointing first meetings that left me uncertain about next steps.
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When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
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I like the idea of going to see the ice caps and the polar bears, because who knows how long they are going to be around for?
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All my records - 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix,' 'Wichita Lineman,' 'Galveston,' 'Rhinestone Cowboy,' 'Dreams of the Everyday Housewife' - they all had strings on them.
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For many people, the hardest thing about job-seeking is figuring out where to start. All through college, I heard my friends asking themselves, 'What do I want to do with my life?' And guess what? After college, and after that first job, people still ask the same question.
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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?'
