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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Kids today and for the last 20 years have held the fork and knife in unbelievable ways. They hold the fork with a fist and the knife like a saw and they shovel it in. It doesn't matter to them which way they hold their knife and fork. They eat every which way. I'm amazed they get food into their mouths at all.
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I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
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I'm not a nasty person.
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Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.
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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
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Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
