P. C. Cast Quotes
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because I am a courageous person or anything, but because I see international standards, and I see that they are worth fighting for.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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God is everywhere.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
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My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.
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Don't just let your career happen to you.
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The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
