Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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Time was God's first creation.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.
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I don't look on the Internet; it's a world of pain.
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I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.
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I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?
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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
