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 guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.
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I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.
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The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.
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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.
