Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.
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The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
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Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.
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You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
