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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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.
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I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.
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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.
