Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
Quotes to Explore
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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I like all kinds of music. I hope you do, too.
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My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.
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I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
