Darren Shan (Darren O'Shaughnessy) Quotes
Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
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My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.
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I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
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Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.
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Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.
