Amanda Hocking Quotes

I don't really like fairies.

Amanda Hocking

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• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • You
  • Learn

• I regret all of my books.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Books
  • Regret

• Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

  

  Ben Carson
  • Thinking
  • Positive

• It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • Important
  • Together
  • Political

• I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People

• I laugh a lot, especially between shots, and it's tough for me to control. There have been so many instances where my director had to request me to stop laughing and come into the mood of the scene.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Control
  • Stop
  • Mood

• I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Different
  • Single

• Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Strong

• It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.

  

  Andrew McCarthy
  • She
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• I love the deadpan. It's such a strong go-to. It lets the audience make their own decisions about what you're thinking.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

  

  Lusia Strus
  • May
  • Choices
  • Theatre

• It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.

  

  Andrew-Lee Potts
  • Funny

• My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Children
  • Stop
  • Dad

• I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • People
  • Singing

• Moreover, his view was precisely the one that many English Protestants feared would result from a careful analysis of the New Testament text, namely that the wide-ranging variations in the tradition showed that Christian faith could not be based solely on scripture (the Protestant Reformation doctrine of sola scriptura), since the text was unstable and unreliable. Instead, according to this view, the Catholics must be right that faith required the apostolic tradition preserved in the (Catholic) church.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Tradition

• The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.

  

  Marc Laidlaw
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Picture

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

  

  Payne Stewart
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • True
  • Color
  • Horse

• I don't really like fairies.

  

  Amanda Hocking