D. J. MacHale Quotes
I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
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I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
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My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'
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The Gruden-McVay relationship goes all the way back to 1970. John McVay and my dad are best of friends. My dad continued to work with McVay as a 49er. When John McVay became the general manager, he hired my dad to be one of his scouts.
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The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.
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I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)
