R. L. Stine Quotes
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I’ve thought about it, I’ll admit that. But I can’t see us hanging it up any time soon. Let’s get one thing straight: we would never become a parody of ourselves. But it’s my job to drive Maiden, and one day I’m not going to be able to do it any more.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
