John Sandford Quotes
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream.
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Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
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Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
