Terry Brooks Quotes
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
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I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge.
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We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'
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Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
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Chaos can be incredibly creative.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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The great thing about interning at 'Teen Vogue' is that there is so much room for growth; interns here do incredible things if they work hard enough and think outside the box.
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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
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If you're going to build a business that's based on community, your business has to have community in it.
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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
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There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.
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What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
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They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.
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I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.
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The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
