R. L. Stine Quotes
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
