Jonathan Stroud Quotes
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
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I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
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People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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The studio work is the nasty, tedious, hard and nerve-wracking part, interrupted by moments of exhilaration. Playing live is the chance to actually have some fun and get on a stage.
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It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.
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Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
