R. L. Stine Quotes
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
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The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I have a theory, that there is a terrific link between what is funny and what is scary. I think there is a very close connection between what frightens people and what makes them laugh. Laughter is a kind of nervousness. Animals don't laugh. Smiling is, anthropologists agree, directly linked to the baring of the teeth.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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As a television actor, when we work in TV, what we're doing is making a product so that networks can sell ad space.
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Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
