Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
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At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.
