Carl Hiaasen Quotes

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

Carl Hiaasen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1953

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My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.

Jessica Biel

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The Globes are voted for by anyone in L.A. who's ever written for a foreign newspaper or magazine. That means, like, Romanian cookery writers.

John Hillcoat

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I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?

Sophie Thompson

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Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

Trevor Dunn

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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Tom Clancy

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After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

Ron Chernow

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I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

Ron Perlman

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I had fallen in love with California.

DeForest Kelley

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It's just an amazing feeling to know that I'm representing for every plus-size woman out there.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

Ali Smith

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This is the country that we are turning over to young people, and there is going to be no country left at this rate because Trump is destroying the soul of who we are.

Pramila Jayapal

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I love being directed, and I feel so grateful to be able to get to work with some of the directors I've worked with.

Sheryl Lee

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