Nicholas Sparks Quotes
Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
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I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.
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That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.
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The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
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Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
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As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
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Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.
