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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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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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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Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
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You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.
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If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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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.
