Rick Riordan Quotes
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
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Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
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Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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I think there are a lot of things that are different and there are a lot of things that are the same.
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Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.
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Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation.
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The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.
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I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
