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Jonathan Stroud Quotes

I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless.

Jonathan Stroud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good Result Bad Grades Said Hard

Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.

Appreciate Jazz Listen Like Once

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

Good Generation Bad Find Numbers

I'm very confident in how I project my personality.

Personality Confident Project How

Even with an improperly ground mirror, the Hubble delivered extraordinary images. When the flaw was corrected, the Hubble delivered images of transcendent beauty and value for many years. So too 'Terra Nova.' Even in its flawed first season, each episode was full of marvelous moments and beautiful images.

Beauty Beautiful Mirror Value First

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.

Son God Me Writing Story Die

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.

Michael O'Donoghue

War Ending Become Through Anything

Seven years ago, in my first semester at college, the professors handed out MacBook Pros. With mine, I filmed a seven-minute tutorial on 'natural makeup' - just me, my laptop, and a cup of coffee. When, a week later, it clocked 40,000 Web views, I knew people were connecting with it, so I kept going. That moment changed my life.

Life Coffee Moment People College

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

Angry Child Parent Kind Gentle Turn

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

Death People Talk Birth Need Novel

It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.

Change Think Process Remember Easy

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

Change Reality Trying Stop Eliminate

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

Christopher Walken

Time Beginning Think Wedding You Go

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