Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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It was great. It felt like we turned that corner. We had leads going into the fourth quarter and we weren't able to sustain them.
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We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.
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The mist was very dark in here, white and wet, and the cobwebs festooning the gaunt tree trunks were weighed down with thousands of shimmering, pear-shaped crystals. But it was not cold. Only still and secret and private, a hushed world within a world… They followed the sound, and after a while found a clearing, not open to the sky but clear on the ground. Long, wet grass stood there, and pine needles lay dark around the feet of the surrounding trees. In the centre, a well of water bubbled up and trickled away through the grass in two little channels already grooved in the spongy turf… Together they approached the spring, laying Aricia’s bronze coin and his own gold ring in the ice-cold, pure water, and for a moment they stayed there, hypnotised by the quiet tinkle of the gushing water.
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It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different.
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You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.
