Nicholas Sparks Quotes
I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.

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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I do not like violence.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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I love 'Glee.'
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Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.
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I was never interested in playing him with a big red S on his chest. I’m much more attracted to the underbelly stuff. Gibbs is a loner, with emotional scars a mile deep that run in a million different directions. At work, he’s a leader. But who is he if you take away his job? I play him, and even I don’t know the answer to that.
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When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.
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Remember that you are always exactly where you need to be, experiencing what you need to experience so that you can learn what you must learn in order to become the person you need to be to create everything you want for your life. Always.
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I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.