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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I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.
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And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.
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We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
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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.
