Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.
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Clark Gregg is so cool. He's a pretty cool cat. People are drawn to him.
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But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.
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I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
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Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
