Rick Riordan Quotes
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
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I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.
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The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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I'm always interested in the challenge of doing something new.
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Imagine how many people would not vote if they knew they were being recorded while they voted.
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Maybe I'm outdated in thinking this, but because I'm a young black woman and don't see very many being the lead in a film, I have this fear: 'Will I be working?'
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I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
