Carl Hiaasen Quotes - Page 3

• Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jesus, People, Twenties

  Carl Hiaasen (2010). “Strip Tease”, p.470, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Sympathy, Book, Names

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• I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Distance, Thinking, Cattle

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• My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

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  Book, Different, Literature

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• Hey. Sometimes to conclusions.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Hey, Sometimes, Conclusion

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• and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

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  Conclusión

  Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Carl Hiaasen Collection: Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp”, p.201, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Hay tanto odio que dirigimos al exterior que olvidamos que tenemos nuestros propios psicópatas. Pero ese es el papel del escritor satírico: tienes que examinar tu propio país y decir: ¡mira!

  Carl Hiaasen

  Country, Hate, Roles

  "Sunshine satirist" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2004.

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• La primera regla de la cobertura de huracanes es que cada emisión debe comenzar con palmeras doblándose al viento.

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  Wind, Tree, Bending

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• Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

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  Father, Fighting, Stupidity

  Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Carl Hiaasen Collection: Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp”, p.58, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Disney world is an armpit compared to Montana.

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  Montana, World, Armpits

  "Hoot". Book by Carl Hiaasen, 2002.

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• I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

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  Smile, Morning, Home

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• I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

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  Book, Years, Scripts

  "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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• Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.

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  Want, Stuff, Newspapers

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• When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

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  Trying, Down And, Nonfiction

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• The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

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  Running, Lakes, Agriculture

  "Carl Hiaasen and the state of weirdness" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. August 4, 2004.

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• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

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  Talking, Greed, Excess

  "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Rotten, Shooting, Miami

  Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, True Life, Floating

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• Ese espantoso ataque de caimanes en Orlando nunca habría ocurrido si Disney hubiera puesto verdaderas señales de advertencia, como hacen otros complejos turísticos de Florida. Pero los caimanes salvajes no encajan en la imagen de Disney, así que no hubo advertencias adecuadas, y un niño murió sin motivo.

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  Children, Real, Florida

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

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• When I was writing Razor Girl, I thought it would be fun to have a redneck TV family that was really just a bunch of actors who had to be trained to be rednecks. That's not so farfetched, if you know how Hollywood works.

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  Girl, Fun, Writing

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

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• There's this false notion that this is a regional phenomenon, when in fact every state in the union has hardcore rednecks. No exceptions.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Redneck, Unions, Facts

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Me fascina la fascinación de Estados Unidos por los paletos, todo el asunto de Dinastía de Patos. Siendo un tipo blanco del Sur, me parece increíble que tantos telespectadores estén encantados con las barbas, la mala dentadura y los acentos moonshine.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Redneck, Ducks, White

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Los anuncios de televisión, interminables y bastante groseros, dieron origen a Brock, el personaje de abogado malo de Razor Girl. En la vida real se pueden encontrar ejemplos aún más sórdidos que él.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Chica, Real, Carácter

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.

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  Florida, Elements, Mecca

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.

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  Dad, Son, Grandfather

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

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