Nicholas Sparks Quotes
One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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The way you wear your hat,The way you sip your tea,The mem'ry of all that –No, no! They can't take that away from me!
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that…
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If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.
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My character in 'Fresh Meat' is quite prim and tidy, and then I basically had no make-up for the whole shoot of 'Kidnap and Ransom' - apart from a bit of Vaseline to make me look even sweatier!
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I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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I have seen players and coaches come and go, but through it all, I have always known Cleveland is where I want to retire. But life doesn't always work the way you want it to, and at the end of the day, the saying, 'This is a business,' is unfortunately true.
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One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.
