Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.

Quotes to Explore
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.
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We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.
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My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
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I always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.