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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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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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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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.
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I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.
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The public library is where I studied. It’s where my grandfather taught himself English.
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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.
