Nicholas Sparks Quotes

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

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• Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Die
  • Famous
  • Before

• Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Famous
  • Internet

• I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Brother
  • Famous
  • Big Brother

• I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Football
  • Player
  • Star

• I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Never
  • Famous
  • More

• I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Famous

• Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Nice

• The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Together
  • Drama
  • Famous

• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Stars

• I got the famous Oprah hug!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Famous
  • Got
  • Hug

• The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • House
  • Myself

• There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Up
  • Bad
  • House

• The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • Reflection
  • September

• There's not too many rich black people in this world.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Rich
  • Pasta

• Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Relationship
  • Theatre
  • Television

• I am not famous at all.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Famous

• I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Always
  • Famous
  • Successful

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Peace
  • Rich

• Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Long

• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  

  Ovid
  • Health
  • Medicine
  • Medical

• There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
  • Mind
  • Attention

• Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Memories
  • Events
  • Happened

• None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Famous
  • Rich
  • Characters