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.Nick Petrie
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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.
Oliver North -
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
A. N. Wilson -
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman -
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana Santana -
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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.
Ian Hacking
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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.
Dan Quayle -
Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.
Ben Jonson -
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.
Labrinth LSD -
You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.
Matt Bomer -
I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
David A. Adler -
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield
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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.
Danielle Fishel -
I hate auditions.
Andie MacDowell -
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
Bill Condon -
The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.
Anton du Beke -
If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.
Ben Schott -
I want to reignite the interest in hydro-electric investments.
Piyush Goyal
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You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.
Jason Mraz -
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.
Dalai Lama -
Why are people so unkind?
Kamahl -
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
Maggie Stiefvater -
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.
Nick Petrie