Raymond E. Feist Quotes

I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy. That's a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and I have to pay for my Chargers season tickets.

Raymond E. Feist

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GoodMoneyMeBookKindMortgage

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Jodi Picoult

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Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

Angela Duckworth

MorningYourselfPainPeopleGiving

So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place.

Michael Chertoff

OpportunitiesBetterYouPlaceKnow

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.

Stuart Townsend

TimeCuriousWorldFeelingAliveGo

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.

Tracey Emin

LifeWorkYouArtistMatterProtect

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Tony Judt

HistoryWritingReadingStrangeSaw

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.

Rory McIlroy

LoveHomeGreatMeWinningGolf

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

AdversityMenWarBraveVeterans Day

There are people who have demonstrated their willingness to challenge systems and structures, and then when it comes to elections, some of those same people - I don't know where their fight went. What's interesting to me is to see people lose the revolution when it comes to elections.

DeRay Mckesson

ChallengeFightPeopleMeRevolution

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Douglas MacArthur

NeverOrderGiveObeyed

It's nice to be able to let the fans know that you're around and say 'Hi.'

Courteney Cox

YouKnowNiceSayFansAble

I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.

Allison Williams

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