Rick Riordan Quotes

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

Rick Riordan

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LearningChildrenChildThinkBecome

I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something.

John Mahoney

BusinessGreatBestBetterYouKnow

There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.

Robert Dallek

AgeDayMediaYouDownSerious

I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy.

Mary Tyler Moore

SugarCandyEatPure

I love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect movie.

Matt Bomer

WorkLoveSunsetWritingThink

I try not to be cruel to people. I know there's a karma, and I'm constantly thinking of my blessings. I live and die by being a Baptist. If I can't go to church on a Sunday, I'll get a tape by the Clark Sisters and slide it in for the day.

Missy Elliott

LiveDayPeopleThinkingChurchDie

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Claudia Rankine

ImaginationAmericanNeverBeginnings

I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.

Alicia Keys

FearTrustPeopleThinkFeelHold

So much of the destruction on Earth has been wrought by men. Women are the ones who give life and try to pick up the pieces... What a great gender they are.

William T. Vollmann

LifeWomenGreatMenGenderEarth

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

Sylvia Day

MoreWhoThanTroubledHeroines

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Peter McWilliams

ChangeActionYouBeliefFirst

In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn't need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was.

Scott Turow

TimeMeWritingBookThinkInnocent

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

StrengthMenDeepNeverResources

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