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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A short-term economic stimulus to help lift us out of this economic slowdown has to be followed by business tax credits and smart investments to sustain longer-term growth.
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After I grew some facial hair, I looked a bit older, and I guess that's what the modeling world wanted because I started booking more luxury brands.
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People I can trust, people who have the same idea that I have about paying their way and having a bit of fun and the sky is still the limit and trees still grow and the seasons come and go and all of the beautiful things we've got around us, they're still here.
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Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.
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To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.
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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.
