Clive Cussler Quotes
I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I actually moved from engineering to acting. I think what's important is how talented and passionate you are.
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I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.
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My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'
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And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.
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I think our team kind of strives on weirdness sometimes. We have that 'rah-rah, rally' sort of American mentality that we can all kind of get around.
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I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
