R. L. Stine Quotes
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I have been gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh since I was 12. I played in pubs at that age, even though I obviously was too young to be in them. So I used to hide in bathrooms, come out and play my set, then get the hell out as quickly as possible.
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Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.
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All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.
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The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
