Veronica Roth Quotes
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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My health is fine.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit.
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I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American.
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People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
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Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
