Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I never left doo wop.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
