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 a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
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I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
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I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.
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I'm hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That's why I tell people you've got to watch 'The Real.' We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it.
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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.
