Ransom Riggs Quotes
There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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Misery Loves Company. SPIN Magazine (March 1993).
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The important thing is not to know who 'I' is or what 'I' is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
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In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.
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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
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One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.
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I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.
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When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
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There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.
