Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist
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If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.
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The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
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Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
