Peter V. Brett Quotes

Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it.

Peter V. Brett

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MyselfMeCrazyUncleGrandfather

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Jim Hodges

EvidenceThingsInterestedHolding

If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.

Joe Strummer

GodManLawYouNothinAbout

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

John Engler

WishDetroitI WishFailingQuicker

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.

Ana Beatriz Barros

BackGoWantTomatoBrazilCouch

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

Steven Rodney McQueen

ArtMyselfTryingSeeGuyFilm

If you're not clipping coupons before going to the grocery store, you're overspending. If you're ordering in or going out to dinner because you don't feel like cooking, you're overspending. If you're not tracking where your money is going, you're very likely overspending.

Jean Chatzky

MoneyCookingDinnerFeelYouOut

Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.

Jason Momoa

MountainsMeFeelingKnowKindSame

Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.

Josh Fox

HealthSafetyPoliticalOilProtect

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

Jon Meacham

FailurePrayerSchoolMoreRight

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'

Don Rickles

KingPeopleMeCell PhoneSaying

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

David Zucker

ThinkThinkingLaughSeriousMovies

I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.

Christie Hefner

DecisionPeopleThinkBetterYou

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