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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

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David Baldacci
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 5
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The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.
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Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
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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.
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It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.
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Trapped in a trap of your own making.
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Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
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Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
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People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
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Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.
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Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
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Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.
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You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho
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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.
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Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
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Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
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Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
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A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?
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Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.
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I'm a wicked ping-pong player.
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Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
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