John Sandford Quotes
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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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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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.
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To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.
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The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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“I live my life moment to moment. In that moment, I try to give my best because then your next moment is better than your previous one.”
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The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.
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Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
