Clive Cussler Quotes
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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One of my favorite things about my life is that I have the same group of friends that I grew up with. I love them so dearly, and we give each other a hard time.
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God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
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In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
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A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure.
