Rick Riordan Quotes
I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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I never lie to my fans.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.
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You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.
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I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character.
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Europe is one of the best travel destinations in the world.
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I'm like any working mom.
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One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it.
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I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
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My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.
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I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.
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I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.
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The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
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There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.
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One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
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I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.
