Claudia Gray Quotes
I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read.
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The solo break or the small break, it's... one of the most glorious ways to win a bike race. It's pretty damn impressive in my mind.
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I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.
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I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.
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I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.
