Christie Craig (C. C. Hunter) Quotes
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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I quit driving, I'm not retired.
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
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Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.
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My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
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Life's hard, Love's harder.
