Clive Cussler Quotes
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
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It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.
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The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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It stopped the dissociation. I can use my feelings; I’m not running away from them. I’m not held hostage by them. I can’t turn them off and on, but I can put them away.
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There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
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We have found that players like communicating via their digital devices. So with the help of our technology partner, we came up with an app that allows us to send short clips of analysis to individual players or groups of players from different parts of the team. Every player gets a couple of examples of him doing things well and badly straight after the game. They can look at it on their own time and also check their performance data. That's much more useful than showing a 90-minute video tape, as they used to in my time.
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I never had a highfalutin' view of what I write.
