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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I'd never been published when I was young.
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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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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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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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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
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In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren't asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life.
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Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.
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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.
