R. A. Salvatore Quotes
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.
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In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.
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People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.
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The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it...It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.
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I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.
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From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
