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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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'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).
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Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.
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The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
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I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
