Rick Riordan Quotes

I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot of wonderful writers writing for Y.A. I feel like I'm in the right place.

Rick Riordan

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WritingThinkFeelPlaceWayRight

A typical day in the Senate requires several trips to the Senate floor and back, although the journey is usually underground so that on some days, once I arrive at work, I never see the sun.

Jim Webb

WorkJourneyDaySunBackNever

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

Jim Crace

I AmMeWorldBookAbandonedWell

I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.

Tony Evans

TimePrayerMeSamePreachPastor

Gerry Schoenfeld told me 'Les Parents Terribles' was not going to sell, even though we had Kathleen Turner and Jude Law in the cast. So we called it 'Indiscretions.'

Roger Rees

ParentsMeLawGoingSellCast

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

Robin Hayes

KeyLongMilitaryNationRoleOur

I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal limitations and also more powerful to slightly sing sometimes. It depends on the emotion, but I'm never going to try to compete with great singers.

Mary Gauthier

GreatTalkingPowerfulSometimesTry

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

Misty Copeland

BasketballClothesTryingGymKnow

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

Mitch Kapor

EnoughLongGoKnowGoogleEmpires

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?

Jason Robert Brown

VisionControlYouArtistWhyFreak

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

Jon Kyl

HealthCommitmentLawLaw Enforcement

I've said this a lot - I'm afraid to have girls! I've worked with kids before, and I just relate to boys better. I like their competitiveness and aggression: that's more my style. I'm still dead set on doing whatever I can to make sure I only have boys!

Derek Theler

StyleBetterDoingI CanSaidDead

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?

Dee Hock

PeopleBrainYouWhyUnderstandAsk

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