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Nicholas Sparks Quotes

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

Nicholas Sparks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 31, 1965

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People Story Know Inspiration Come

I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he retired, because they took him out on third down and let someone else catch the ball. I thought they must be out of their mind because Barry is such a threat.

Mind Thought Someone Down Know Why

For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.

Words Me Search Laugh Finding You

After the love of my family, there's nothing more important to me than winning football games.

Family Love Football Me Winning

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

Robert Metcalfe

People You Create Creating Possible

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Sometimes Punishment Extraordinary

How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?

Better Things Smarter Much How

One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

Work Performance Judge Someone

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Death Creative Singing Voice Obvious

If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business... they just gesticulate a little bit more.

Business Best People Nothing Worst

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

Love Women Humor Strong Unique Soft

Disinvestments will continue to happen. If the issue is priced correctly, there's no reason why it should not sell.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

Why Will Reason Happen Sell Should

I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says 'Allen, I don't like practice, either.' I've got to straighten that kid right then.

Practice Me Career Worst Right Kid

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