Rick Riordan Quotes

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

Rick Riordan

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'Terrible' is not a word I would use in shooting romantic scenes with Scott Speedman.

Jessy Schram

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Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Jennifer Esposito

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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.

Jenna Wortham

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I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

Andrew Breitbart

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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Max Frisch

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Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway.

Robert Gottlieb

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I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

Andy Roddick

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I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

Stanley Donen

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Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I'm like an old pickup truck. I just bounce around and try to get the job done.

Steve Largent

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I'm not dieting anymore. I want to eat what my body is asking of me. Just listen to your body in general - it's all self-awareness.

Mary Lambert

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I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

William Gibson

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