P. C. Cast Quotes
Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.
Quotes to Explore
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.
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The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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People call you "director," but it really should be "economic manager." Because everything is "Well, we can do another take here, but then you're gonna lose that shot over there." Or "The sun's going down, sorry, you're outta luck. We can't afford to." You know? And meanwhile, how do you get the performer's performance? I'm thinking the whole time all about "How can I get my day done?" And my performances are primarily a result of casting the right people at the right time in the right parts. And then I do little modifications.
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Shadows in shadows He watches through dreams Wings black as Africa Body strong as stone Done waiting The ravens call.
