R. L. Stine Quotes
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
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Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.
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Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
