Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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Aren't people supposed to do movies so that they can get girls?
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I am always looking for the next show.
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Playing the race card is done as if it were some kind of sport.
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While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.
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When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.
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There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.
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Human beings are fascinating with religion and stories about not dying. Or dying and being brought back to life. I think it's just part of our make up.
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What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.
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Time control directly influences the quality of play.
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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.
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It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.
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From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview, but when you fail to recognize that it's the systemic reality of the greatest civilization in the history of humanity, you can become apathetic about what you actually now have. We have something that generations of people did not have.
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Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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Being able to play basketball at a high level, adjusting to the ball in the air, quick feet, quick hands and all that stuff definitely translates to playing tight end in the National Football League.
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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
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In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.
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That's what dating is for, after all - to learn if you're compatible with someone.
