Richelle Mead Quotes
People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I write novels and other things.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.
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People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
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I always try to stay aggressive. I always use my strengths and always work on my weaknesses to get better. That's just who I am.
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AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
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I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
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It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it.
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I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'
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No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
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People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.
