Suzanne Collins Quotes

If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.

Suzanne Collins

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The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Jessica Lange

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I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

John Newcombe

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It feels, to me, when you're with someone you really love, you never look at your phone.

Matthew Gray Gubler

LoveMeSomeoneYouLookPhone

There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.

Michael Anti

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Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Method Man

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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Alvin Toffler

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You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There's nothing that's stopped me picking up a newspaper in the past, and it's something I really should start to do.

Sophia Myles

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If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Sun Tzu

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I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

Tracy Morgan

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An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

Robyn Hitchcock

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Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

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I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

Michael Socha

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