Steve Berry Quotes
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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Even the ears must dance.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.
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The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.
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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
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I want to die on my own terms.
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The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
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The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.
