Greg van Eekhout Quotes

There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn't really my thing, maybe because I didn't grow up playing RPG's.

Greg van Eekhout

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WorldBuildingStoryGrowNeedUp

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

Jewel

DayFunHomelessWritingYouMean

You don't have to live on a farm to have chickens; in some places, you just need a little bit of green space and a tidy chicken coop. To me, they're nearly ideal pets. They feed us more often than we feed them! We have 2 chickens, Goldie and Paprika, and they each produce 1 egg a day, sometimes more.

Amy Robach

LiveDaySpaceMeGreenYou

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Robert Fulghum

PeopleSorryHurtYouPlaySay

Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

Robbie Keane

LifeChallengesYouSometimesWill

Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.

Michael Socha

CharacterYouOwnHoldSomething

I think I've had extremes of being unable to exist outside of my own head, and then I only am existing for other people... There's a middle ground where I should take care of myself and other people.

Lucy Dacus

MyselfPeopleThinkCareTake Care

All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

Joshua Foer

MouthFindKnowAfricaFirstAlways

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

Jared Polis

QualitySchoolNeverMealsShould

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

Dixie Carter

LearningChildrenChildParents

My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write a book that every kid would end up reading at some point in their life because influencing kids in a positive way at such a young age is really cool.

Coy Bowles

LifePositiveAgeChildrenMeCool

I think Jughead is a pretty trustworthy character - not only a narrator. I think he might be selfish, but he's obviously selfish, and that is comforting to me. I also think he has a really strong moral fiber and a propensity for good, and he tries to cultivate that in other people.

Cole Sprouse

GoodCharacterPeopleMeSelfish

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Brett Ratner

YouShowMovieTheaterReally

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