Nick Petrie Quotes
I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a suspenseful crime novel.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.
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I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.
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You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.
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I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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I hate auditions.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.
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Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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Strong people don't need strong leaders.
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Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.
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I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a suspenseful crime novel.
