Carl Hiaasen Quotes
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
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Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
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Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.
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Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude;Death joins us to the great majority.
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
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I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
