Nicholas Sparks Quotes
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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It was one of those things that I set forth as a goal after my surgery. I have been working very hard with the trainers and the team personnel.
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Care and pity are two different things.
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I know MMA isn't for everyone. It is a combat sport; some people don't like watching it, but it is entertainment for some people.
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I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost because of AIDS. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's Hospital who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.
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I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
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There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.
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There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
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Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.
