Darren Shan (Darren O'Shaughnessy) Quotes
One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.
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All religions have been made by men.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
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Fear controls you.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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The next thing which surprised us very much, is that both for Julia sets and even more so for the Mandelbrot set, the complication was not, how to say, arbitrary, and almost everybody found the impression that these shapes were hauntingly beautiful. These shapes resulted from the most ridiculous transformation, z
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Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
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They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.
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We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.
