Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
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I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
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When I get nervous, my voice gets very high.
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the parks, because it will be future generations that will have to value these landscapes and these ecosystems and make sure that nobody is changing the law.
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I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
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If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.
