Ransom Riggs Quotes

As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do. Everyone breaks into the business in a different way.

Ransom Riggs

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I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!

Joanna Garcia

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If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

Jenny Eclair

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Awards are lovely and always welcome.

Max von Sydow

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A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don't take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say 'no.' But 'no' in a positive way.

Michael Cudlitz

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We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

John R. Allen

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I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

Roz Chast

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I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

Lloyd Blankfein

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My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.

Judy Sheindlin

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You should always go through the first draft of a book all at once, I think, to get the best results. You can take time off after the first draft and come back to it fresh.

Judy Blume

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'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

Jay McInerney

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'Power' is not a black show. It's not a white show. It's a New York show.

Courtney A. Kemp

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Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions.

Clayton M. Christensen

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