Kelley Armstrong Quotes

Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don't do that, the reader doesn't care what happens to them.

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• I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Believe
  • Live

• I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Journey
  • Limits
  • Reggae

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Money
  • You
  • Desire

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• I dare to do things - that's how I survive.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Things
  • Survive
  • Dare

• As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Television
  • Structure

• 'Mean Girls' is literally one of my favorite movies. It's just such a classic. Everybody has seen it, and me and my friends quote it all the time.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Movies

• I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Dislike

• We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

  

  Larry Page
  • Why
  • Know
  • Government

• I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Never
  • Mistaken
  • Pat

• I'm not getting recognized because I posed in a swimsuit edition of some magazine, but because of what I do on the field, and that's important to me.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Important
  • Me
  • Recognized

• Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Time
  • Years
  • Will

• Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Reason

• The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Play
  • Winning
  • Talk

• Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Reality
  • Very
  • Bear

• When I was on 'Terra Nova', I had an Australian iPhone and a U.S. iPhone, different time zones, just a couple differences in the machines, but I was able to keep the international aspect of things in order. But I lost my U.S. iPhone right before I left Australia. Somebody's got it somewhere out there. Send it back?

  

  Jason O'Mara
  • Time
  • Different
  • Lost

• When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Money
  • City

• Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.

  

  John David Washington

• You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Man
  • Know

• Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don't do that, the reader doesn't care what happens to them.

  

  Kelley Armstrong