Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes
...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I don't like allegories.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
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The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.
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Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
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People like to watch surfing, but maybe the girls get the wrong kind of promotion and the wrong kind of press. I might be called a feminist for saying it, but it's like the girls are promoted sexually rather than what they're achieving.
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I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.
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...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.
