Nicholas Sparks Quotes

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

Nicholas Sparks

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• I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Creative

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue

• Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

  

  FKA twigs
  • World
  • Real
  • Racism

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Real
  • Night

• New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Moving

• I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Time
  • Same
  • Broadway

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Wisdom
  • Choices

• When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Change

• We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Princess
  • Island
  • Ships

• To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • You
  • Me

• My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • My Life

• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • True
  • Worry
  • Yourself

• What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.

  

  Steve Stoute
  • Successful
  • Aim
  • Businessman

• But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

  

  Andre Benjamin
  • Art

• I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Passion
  • English
  • Literature

• I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.

  

  Tom Green
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Attention

• She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Passion
  • Quiet
  • Romance