Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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At no point did I ever doubt I would be as near as anybody could be to England's Elvis Presley. Even from eight or nine years old, I thought, Well, I'll be the greatest rock star in England. I just made up my mind.
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An overflow of good converts to bad.
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Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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I'm obviously all for women's lib.
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I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal.
