Rick Riordan Quotes

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

Rick Riordan

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People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

John Cheever

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I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

John Cusack

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The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

Maya Lin

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My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.

Michael Franti

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You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Yeah, I'm an open book.

Amy Winehouse

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Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

Travis Bradberry

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We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

Tony Goldwyn

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If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.

Robert Crumb

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Growing up together with my brothers and working out - knowing that they bring intensity to the workout and they really, truly believe in it - it's awesome.

Rob Gronkowski

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I just don't want to be a champion; I want to be one of the best fighters there ever was.

Robert Whittaker

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I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

Romola Garai

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