Stephenie Meyer Quotes
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
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I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.
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Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
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No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
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Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.
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I am happy because I am no longer an author.
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So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
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For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
