Rick Yancey Quotes
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
Quotes to Explore
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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I'm curvy.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
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It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing, but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
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Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
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The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
