Rae Carson Quotes
I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
Quotes to Explore
-
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
-
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
-
So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
-
Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
-
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
-
I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
-
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
-
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
-
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
-
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
-
I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
-
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
-
I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
-
I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
-
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
-
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
-
As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth.
-
I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.
-
I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.
-
I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.
-
Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.
-
I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
