Dan Brown Quotes
It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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The best thing I can say about 'Teen Wolf Too' is that it's the only time anyone ever referred to me as Preston Sturges. Leonard Maltin wrote that 'Teen Wolf Too' made 'Teen Wolf' look like Preston Sturges. I've always prided myself on that.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
