Nicholas Sparks Quotes
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.
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The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.
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Most of the titles are quotes from books or movies.
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For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .
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She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
