Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
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I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
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I love you,too, Garrett. But sometimes love isn't enough.
