Darren Shan (Darren O'Shaughnessy) Quotes
My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.Darren Shan
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
Ed Wood -
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
Ferdinand Christian Baur -
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne -
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. Cole -
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
Gail Simmons -
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
Carl Hiaasen -
When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
Walid Muallem -
I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
OMI
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
Oliver Stone -
My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
Vernon Jordan -
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters -
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
Ted Cruz -
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
D. B. Weiss -
You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
Adam Carolla
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
Ma Jian -
One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
Kristin Bauer van Straten -
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
Anthony Trollope -
We have an amazing team at ILM who can create fantastic effects.
Kathleen Kennedy -
Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
Fran Tarkenton -
My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
Darren Shan