Nicholas Sparks Quotes
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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I'm a fan of action movies.
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
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Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.
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My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
