Carl Hiaasen Quotes
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
