Ransom Riggs Quotes
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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The moon belongs to everyone. The best things in life they're free. Stars belong to everyone. They cling there for you and for me.
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I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.
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No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
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I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle.
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There's some awfully good things done today and some awful terrible things done today,
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.
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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
