Rick Riordan Quotes

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.

Rick Riordan

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MeWritingBookYouLoseWill

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

Andy Garcia

MeControlChoicesMoviesMake

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

Robert Kagan

CompetitionBelieveTrueI Believe

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

Trevor Nunn

MyselfProfessionalRoyalUpBring

I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.

Mike Birbiglia

FamilyLovePizzaWeddingWantEat

We're expanding the brand. Bojana and I are indeed awaiting our second child. We're very excited.

Michael Weatherly

ChildBrandExcitedSecondOurVery

Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.

Monica Johnson

ParentsTeachersUpStudentsShow

I think nudity is funny, especially when it's inappropriate.

Chelsea Handler

FunnyThinkInappropriateI Think

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

Colin Mochrie

DeepTryingDinosaurOutWithinUs

It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

Claire Danes

LoveYourselfPeopleJudgeMovies

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

Bob Edwards

WorkProblemYouNewsUrgencyRadio

I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.

Ariel Garten

PeopleBrainPotentialHelpMinds

I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.

William Golding

MeYearsRatherAfterlifeMuch

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