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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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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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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Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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Don't write for who your reader is. Write for what your reader wants to be.
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While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.
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The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.
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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.
