R. L. Stine Quotes
When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
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No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.
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When I've written episodes of 'Doctor Who', when it comes to the monster chasing somebody, it's the Doctor and the companion, running down the corridor, being chased by a guy with a stick and a tennis ball on the end. Whereas, when I see the rushes of 'Being Human', we're actually looking at the werewolf, and it just looks real.
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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
