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These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.


John Sandford

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DEYTH BANGER These are characters they know and love, and you want to make sure to be true to those characters.
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JOHN KAREVOLL You're a throwback."
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FRED SAVAGE You are what you are, and what you are is not me!
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ANDY TAYLOR The characters that I play are real. They are real so they have as much right to be portrayed as any...
ROBERT DE NIRO Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
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MATT GROENING You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.
AMIT RAY This statements are not the rantings of some religious nut, but what the Bible actually says, ... (T...
JAMES TUCKER The past or past events and the future or future events, ONLY EXIST IN THE MIND. They are not real o...
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DAVID KRAUSE We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.
CRISTINA SARALEGUI Parties are becoming more spontaneous.
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CHELSEA CAIN If not, it's going to be quite a nut.
GERALD SMITH Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.
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JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
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JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
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JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
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JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
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JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
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JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
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JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
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JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
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JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
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JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
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JOHN LYDON You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one...
JOHN WOODEN I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
JOHN ENSIGN The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in...
JOHN GRIERSON