Patricia Briggs Quotes
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.Patricia Briggs
Quotes to Explore
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop -
I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
Kara Walker -
I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
Adam D'Angelo -
When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
Dallas Roberts -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Jack Nicholson -
It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
Samantha Morton -
I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
Wassily Kandinsky -
I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
Laura Ramsey
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
Nathan Fillion -
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
Walter Lang -
I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
Gabriel Basso -
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
Pankaj Mishra -
Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz -
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
Sam Mendes
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
Ben Marcus -
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
Marilyn Monroe -
The Secretary General, in a very real sense, is the servant of the General Assembly. Diminish his authority and you diminish the authority of the only body where all nations, regardless of power, are equal and sovereign. Until all the powerful are just, the weak will be secure only in the strength of this Assembly.
John F. Kennedy -
I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it's hard not to!
Maddie Ziegler -
You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.
Jimmy John Liautaud -
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
Patricia Briggs