Beth Revis Quotes
Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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There are a lot of people out there that really aren't that different than me, I consider myself a pretty average guy, so hopefully they understand me and know where I am coming from. I kinda feel like I am a voice for them.
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
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No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.
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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.
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I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.
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A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.
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The truth is that it's just really hard for me to get to sleep without a dog in my bedroom. I once had a dog named Beau. He used to sleep in the corner of the bedroom. Some nights, though, he would sneak onto the bed and lie right between Gloria and me. I know that I should have pushed him off the bed, but I didn't. He was up there because he wanted me to pat his head, so that's what I would do.
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There are clear and predictable consequences for the world if human beings continue to rape the earth and plunder its resources; to exploit, oppress, and dominate the weak and the poor for the sake of greed and the hunger for power; to depend on ever-rising levels of violence and ever more lethal instruments of death and destruction in order to secure positions of power and privilege.
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A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.
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The very best approach to medicine is, "Well, I see your physical body is sick, what's been bothering you? What are you worried about? What are you angry about? What are you frustrated about?" Because that is what is at the root of all of this. And then say, "Let it go, let it go, let it go." That's the message, and if they could hear you and do that, then they would all be well right away.
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Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.
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Don't you see? Those monsters you've been so worried about. Not aliens. People. The monsters have always been people.
