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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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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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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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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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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He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .
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To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
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I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.
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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.
