Jonathan Stroud Quotes

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

Jonathan Stroud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1970

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Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again.

Joe Scarborough

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We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.

John Lasseter

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Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

Stephen Ambrose

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I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

Slick Rick

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For me, my life is a journey.

Jay Electronica

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My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Janine Turner

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I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that's been refined over many years. I won't tell anybody what it is.

Josh Fox

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I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.

Dina Titus

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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

Douglas Coupland

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If I see one more forensics show, I'm gonna throw up.

Dean Winters

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I've gotten involved in producing now, so the kinds of things that are more my own choice are more possible in that field because I don't have to be castable. I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever.

Colin Firth

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I think I'm good at playing dramatic and serious roles, but it's not necessarily what I want to keep doing.

Asa Butterfield

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