Carl Hiaasen Quotes

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.

Carl Hiaasen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

Jesse Kellerman

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Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.

Amy Klobuchar

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Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

Sun Myung Moon

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My entrepreneurial spirit happened all day long because I got to think of things that kids would interact with. I was in front of my customers for 6-8 hours a day. I got to see what they like, what they don't like, what they connected with, and most importantly, did they learn something from this?

Steve Spangler

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Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.

Rita Ora

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If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.

Roger Ailes

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I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

Miley Cyrus

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Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

Louis MacNeice

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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Joseph Conrad

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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Don Marquis

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I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.

Dontrelle Willis

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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Chinua Achebe

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