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Nelson DeMille Quotes

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 23, 1943

Topics

Writing World More First Started

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

Work Myself Challenges Song You

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

Experience Cats Intelligence Animal

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

You Want Make Movie Gotta

If you can appeal to another person's sense of humor, you can introduce ideas, thoughts, things that they may disagree with or not believe in. At least they'll listen.

Humor Ideas Thoughts Believe You

Strangely enough, I've become a Metallica fan.

Enough Become Fan Metallica

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

Time Stand Want Movies Test

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

Brendan Gleeson

Love Music Me Hands Early Play

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.

Love Time World Champion Short Long

This baby comes out of you and there's no handbook. They hand you this child and say, 'Don't kill it. Feed it, clothe it and shelter it.' I never knew what that kind of love was. I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me.

Love Father Daughter Time Child Me

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Publilius Syrus

Greatness Bottom Ascent Despise

I live a very simple life. I live away from all the Hollywood hype, and I try to keep it that way.

Life Live Simple Simple Life Way

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

Age Eye Enlightenment Being Most

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