Seanan McGuire Quotes

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

Seanan McGuire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 5, 1978

Topics

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How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

John Ford

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You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Robert Harris

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The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to marry profit and purpose. The reason brands participate is that such outreach earns those companies social currency enabling them to start or participate in conversations that connect them to consumers in meaningful ways.

Simon Mainwaring

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I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

Roger Moore

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I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

Russell Smith

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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

Lloyd Alexander

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Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims.

Jon Lovitz

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Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.

Dorothea Dix

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You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Chris Evert

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I grew up with a bunch of factory workers.

Bobby Cannavale

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Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.

Art Alexakis

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We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

William Lloyd Garrison

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