Rick Riordan Quotes
To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.
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One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
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I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.
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It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.
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Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?
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The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquiades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms, and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedios in the soporific air of two in the afternoon, Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths, Remedios in the steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever.
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There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.
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A drawing has never killed anyone.
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To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.
