D. J. MacHale Quotes
Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Ouch. Loor answered, "It is the name of a legendary hero on Zadaa. A woman." Really?" Aja said. "What did she do that was so heroic?" She killed her enemies and ate them.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.
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Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.
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We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.
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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
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Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Ouch. Loor answered, "It is the name of a legendary hero on Zadaa. A woman." Really?" Aja said. "What did she do that was so heroic?" She killed her enemies and ate them.
