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Church of painful love - unfulfilled, unrequited & unattained. (Dan Brown)
In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize. View quote
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I never imagined so many people would be enjoying it this much. I wrote this book essentially as a group of fictional characters exploring ideas that I found personally intriguing. View quote
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future. View quote
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see. View quote
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...the all-time best «gift book» has to be a leather-bound copy of the Oxford English Dictionary. How can you go wrong? Of course, don't forget a magnifying glass to go with it. View quote
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All the history, artwork, ancient documents, and secret rituals in the novel are accurate...as are the hidden codes revealed in some of Da Vinci's most famous paintings. View quote
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Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting. View quote
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Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell. View quote
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot. View quote
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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing. (Dan Brown)
She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine. View quote
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Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong. View quote
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. View quote
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Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species. View quote
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. View quote
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. View quote
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough. View quote
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with. View quote
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas. View quote
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time. (Dan Brown)
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law. View quote
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal. View quote
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material. View quote
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Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. View quote
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