Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.
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The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.
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The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
