Gary D. Schmidt Quotes
Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.Gary D. Schmidt
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I loved the world of imagination.
R. A. Salvatore -
My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
Maeve Binchy -
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
D. B. Sweeney -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
Calista Flockhart -
I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
Viggo Mortensen
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
Nancy Gibbs -
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
B. F. Skinner -
It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
Laura Schlessinger -
I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
Park Chan-wook -
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou -
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
Ulrich Beck
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
Yves Behar -
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien -
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
Taylor Swift -
I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
Zoe Kazan -
I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.
Jack Black -
But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
Marat Safin
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
Langston Hughes -
The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
Oren Peli -
I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
Edith Piaf -
I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.
Gary D. Schmidt