Clive Cussler Quotes
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
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Every single film I've done, it's about the character.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
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As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.
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Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
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People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.
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Did you know that I went to London to see Whistler and that I spent about twelve days, very impressed by London and also by Whistler, who is a great artist; moreover, he could not have been more charming to me, and has invited me to exhibit at his show.
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I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.
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It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.
