John Sandford Quotes
Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
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My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.
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Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.
