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Kenneth Oppel Quotes

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 31, 1967

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Me Want Everything Something Streak

We tend to intensely scout an area and then use our imaginations to make the best use of the geography.

Best Scout Geography Make Our Use

When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.

College Story Back Place Hospital

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

Good Mistakes People Doing Camera

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

Important Economy Decide Tourism

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

Movies See Seen Where Well Matrix

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

Michelle Bachelet

Growth People Democracy Will Mean

When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Work Mother Women Yourself I Am Me

I started off at a local newspaper called 'The Middle East Times,' which is no longer in existence. I remember one of the earliest stories that I wrote for them was a study about domestic violence in Egypt from a government-run research institute think tank.

Research Think Violence Remember

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

Me Baby Friends Know Tell Mine

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Marriage Women God Money Support

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Good Win Better Golf Jack Lee

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

Christina Perri

Time Myself School Poetry Brother

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