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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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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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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If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
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The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
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At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.
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Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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I never had a highfalutin' view of what I write.
