Nicholas Sparks Quotes
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
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Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
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These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
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I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
