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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I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will work out. That's what drives me. I'm not looking for legacy or history books or whatever. I know what we've done here has saved a significant number of lives. The burden is not on me. It's on the politicians who made the decisions to limit what we're doing. They're the ones who are going to pay a price, in my judgment, if crime significantly increases.
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If they can get away with it, why can't we try and get away with it too.
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I had managed to scare even the monsters, and when you can scare monsters, you can be sure you've become one yourself.
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We're in a time when bashing is the norm - especially on social media, where everybody's online and no one interacts face-to-face. There's a quote I found yesterday - it was hilarious: "People need to chill, like literally, we're floating in space on a giant rock we can't leave. Look at the stars or something instead of being awful." You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.
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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.
