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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

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• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
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  • Music

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
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• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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  • Man
  • Amazing

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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• The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
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• My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
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• When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

  

  Aaliyah
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• All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The agenda of burning embassies and treading on flags has its objective, of which seeking an apology for defaming our prophet is not among them at all.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
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• From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
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• 'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

  

  Matthew Desmond
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• If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

  

  Matthew Desmond
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• The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

  

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura
  • Action

• Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Thinking
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• You can say a lot with pictures. It's a visual medium - and especially with animation, you can do a lot that you can't do in live action.

  

  Craig McCracken
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• Looking back, I do think one of the reasons 'Thirteen Reasons Why' has been so successful is not because it deals with serious issues but because I had a unique and interesting way to tell that story. I knew the issues were going to be dealt with in the book, but I felt my job was to write the story as entertainingly as possible.

  

  Jay Asher
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• President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

  

  Conan O'Brien
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• I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."

  

  Sarah Dessen
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• Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

  

  Terry Brooks
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