Terry Brooks Quotes
There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
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I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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I take a lot of naps.
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My dad was one who - he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.
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I love my refrigerator.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I love horror, sci-fi and action, or I wouldn't make these kinds of movies, but those designations are Trojan horses to make these personal comedies.
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.
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There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
