David Baldacci Quotes - Page 2

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• Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

  David Baldacci

  Mistake, Gone, Reputation

  David Baldacci (2009). “The Simple Truth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

  David Baldacci

  Rude, Maxwell, Havens

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• I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

  David Baldacci

  Writing, Vivid Imagination, World

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• Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.

  David Baldacci

  Attention, Warning, Waste

  David Baldacci (2011). “Wish You Well”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• Trapped in a trap of your own making.

  David Baldacci

  Traps, Trapped

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Innocent”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.

  David Baldacci

  Real, Civilization, Survival

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Innocent”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

  David Baldacci

  People, President, Flip

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• I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

  David Baldacci

  Hard Work, Character, Challenges

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• Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

  David Baldacci

  Misplaced

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• See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner

  David Baldacci

  Church, Want, Skinner

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• Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

  David Baldacci

  Beach, Reading, People

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• Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.

  David Baldacci

  Humanity, Principles, Process

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• I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

  David Baldacci

  Player, Wicked, Ping Pong

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

  David Baldacci

  Trying, Labels, World

  David Baldacci (2011). “One Summer”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

  David Baldacci

  Knights, Justice, Disrespect

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• You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

  David Baldacci

  Running, People, Soul

  David Baldacci (2009). “Absolute Power”, p.350, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

  David Baldacci

  Long, Corruption, Humans

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Winner”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

  David Baldacci

  Men, Age, Who Cares

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Whole Truth”, p.213, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

  David Baldacci

  Tired, People, I'm Tired

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• You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

  David Baldacci

  Persons

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Forgotten”, p.308, Pan Macmillan

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• But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

  David Baldacci

  Hero, Protagonists

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• I can write with a crying child on my lap. I have. Often.

  David Baldacci

  Children, Writing, Lap

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• The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

  David Baldacci

  Military, Writing, Soldier

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• I'm ever curious about the world.

  David Baldacci

  Vivid Imagination, World, Curious

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• In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

  David Baldacci

  Guy, Thrillers, Gray Area

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