Michael A. Stackpole Quotes

Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

Michael A. Stackpole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1957

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Some songs just resonate with you.

Jessie Buckley

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Even as a full-grown adult, it can still feel destabilizing when your family goes through changes.

Jenny Han

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People like to say how much they like stuff, but with 'The Sunset Tree,' people shared stories about what it meant for them. And that stuff's so humbling and amazing.

John Darnielle

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It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

John Mackey

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I like being outside and seeing a lot of new things.

Max Charles

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Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Stephen Hawking

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I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

Stella Maeve

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I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.

Rodrigo Duterte

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It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

Ruth Rendell

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The biggest cardinal sin is not being in the moment, whether in life or on-screen. You owe it to your fellow actor that if they feed you something, you give them an earnest response to what they've said to you as opposed to what you wanted to do before they ever showed up.

Romany Malco

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My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

Don McLean

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To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today, and how it has changed along the way. The word 'nice' is a positive word today, but hundreds of years ago, it meant 'stupid.'

Anu Garg

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