Carl Hiaasen Quotes
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I make hits.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God.
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The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.
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When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
