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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Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place.
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Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
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People often say that the beginning of the rainy season is a bad time for sick people.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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I love you,too, Garrett. But sometimes love isn't enough.
