Ransom Riggs Quotes
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
