Clive Cussler Quotes
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.
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I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.
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I've always been a bit of a daredevil, even as a little girl with a pretty high pain tolerance and things like that.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.
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I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.
