Ally Carter Quotes
But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.
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Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.
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I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
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But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.
