Carl Hiaasen Quotes
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.
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I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
