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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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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I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.
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In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.
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I go anywhere in the world they tell me to go, any time they tell me to, to fight anybody they want me to fight. I move my family anywhere they tell me to move to, on a day's notice, and I live in whatever quarters they assign me. I work whenever they tell me to work... and I like it.
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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.
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I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.
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I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.
