Nicholas Sparks Quotes
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we're made out of exploding stars.
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This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.
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I think that you just understand, as any creative person, that there's a beast that you have to beat, and it never goes away. I've resigned myself to that, and it's kind of what keeps you going. Writing is the worst and the best.
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I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.
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There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
