Top 68 Terry Hayes Quotes
#1. After all, education is a grab for a better future, no matter how impossible the prospect may seem at the time.
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#2. The problem with movies is you are over-rewarded for the work you do. It's hard to give up, and I got used to a certain lifestyle.
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#3. long view of the drive and gave that week's
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#4. a man gets burnt out long before his reputation.
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#5. If Only
but it has been my unfortunate experience that you can't rely on divine intervention and that fate favors the bad as often as the good.
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#6. The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.
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#7. He was in his midforties, tall and overweight, a sausage-fingered vulgarian in a slick suit.
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#9. They say that when men are dying in battle their fingers nearly always twist into the soil, trying to hold on to the earth and all the pain and love it holds. The
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#10. If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.
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#11. There was one thing the experience had taught him. He said he'd learned that when millions of people, a whole political system, countless numbers of citizens who believed in God, said they were going to kill you - just listen to them.
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#12. She knew, even in marriage, if you advanced too far to please the other person it let them edge away and you ended up always laughing and fighting and screwing on their territory. Sometimes you had to stand your ground and make them come to you - just to keep the equilibrium.
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#13. When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.
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#14. I've always been pretty much on the outside of any side you can find.
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#15. would have seen a man with empty eye sockets,
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#16. If you take the final betrayal out of it,' he said, 'he was a fine agent - one of the best.'
I stared at him. 'That's one way of putting it,' I replied. 'If you take the bomb out of it, 6 August was probably a nice day in Hiroshima.
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#17. I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.
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#18. I think I can speak with a degree of authority ... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.
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#19. It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.
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#20. A hundred times I must have thought of ways to take it back, but I wasn't smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strenght, not weakness ( ... )
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#21. The driver thought I was crazy - but then his religion thinks stoning a woman to death for adultery is reasonable, so I figured we were about even.
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#22. The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.
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#23. We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.
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#24. Go down deep enough into darkness and nothing's ever the same,
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#25. I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.
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#26. The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.
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#27. Shocking as it was, over 45 percent of Arab women couldn't read or write.
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#28. The three agents were hard guys, the youngest of them in his twenties, a man whose IQ was so low I figured they had to water him twice a day.
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#29. You wanted to commit suicide and couldn't quite find the courage, two days in Jeddah would do the trick. With no movie houses, concerts, bars, mixed-sex coffee shops, or parties there was little to do at night and we drove down a highway that was almost deserted.
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#30. I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.
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#31. And though I couldn't explain why, I undid my jacket and made sure I could reach my Beretta tucked into my belt at the back. It was that sort of place, that sort of night.
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#32. On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.
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#34. I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.
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#35. When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.
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#36. A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.
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#37. Heavily armed men in uniform were everywhere, but there was nothing you could call genuine security: as usual, too many guns, not enough intelligence.
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#38. life lives on in our children and their children, and not even a king can take that away.
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#39. So hot that the locals claimed a pervert was a man who preferred women to beer
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#40. A couple of days ago, I saw a rig big enough to haul that tanker. You wanna get outta here? You talk to me.
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#41. Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.
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#42. We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.
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#43. Yet again that the quietest man in the room is usually the most dangerous.
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#45. As a Swiss writer once said, "We wanted a labor force but human beings came," and what nobody had foreseen was that those workers would bring their mosques, their holy book, and huge swathes of their culture with them.
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#46. Nobody's ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.
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#47. If the shit is up to your neck - whatever you do, don't make waves.
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#48. Like people say - if you want to make God laugh, tell him you've got plans.
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#49. Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.
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#50. The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.
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#51. Is her husband a cop too? That's the way it usually works in
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#52. Locard's Exchange Principle and it says "every contact between a perpetrator and a crime scene leaves a trace.
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#53. As a Turkish proverb says
it was going to be like digging a well with a needle.
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#54. Every life leaves a trace, every ship a wake, and even though it was often just a glimmer of phosphorescence in the dark,
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#55. Things that cross all racial, religious, and cultural boundaries - poor
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#56. Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.
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#57. You can kill a thinker, but you can't kill the thought.
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#58. I had been to Jeddah on my previous trip, so I knew it well enough. There was only one thing to recommend it: say, you wanted to commit suicide and couldn't quite find the courage, two days in Jeddah would do the trick.
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#59. Somehow, she and the physicians rolled the stone back from the cave and eventually he was released to the high-dependency unit.
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#60. You gonna curse the darkness or light a candle?
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#61. With bee-stung lips and bolt-on boobs,
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#62. There was this book I'd read by somebody whose name I couldn't remember and he had this expression 'sorrow floats
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#63. Movie studios could learn a thing or two from British publishers. There is an intelligence, and a respect for writers; things that you hope for and never get in Hollywood.
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#64. That was the part of the epic story about coming back from the dead, being restored to life. "He is risen," it says. He is risen.
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#65. I have nothing but praise for J. K. Rowling. Her contribution - apart from the books themselves, obviously - is showing writers how to interact with the 21st Century.
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#66. I went to Australia from England when I was right at that age when you learn to read. It's a very confronting thing, traveling halfway around the world and having a mother who was deeply unhappy at ending up in Australia, so you look for some way to find comfort, I guess, and I found it in books.
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#68. to be in Paris when you're young and free - well, there's not much on earth better than that.
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