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Ransom Riggs Quotes

In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure in for years and plunging them into the unknown. That's how you really get to know them.

Ransom Riggs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

City You Know Unknown Years Out

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

Jennifer Grant

Life Good Father Happiness Coffee

When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.

John Mellencamp

Hate Pink American America Talking

Sometimes it's difficult to win even if you are the best team. If you're not, it's more difficult.

Maurizio Sarri

Best Team Win You Sometimes More

Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Nature Transition Chemistry May

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

Spike Lee

Credit You Movies Get Your Stuff

Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

Tommy Lasorda

Say Please Too Grownups

We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia.

Mohsin Hamid

Memories Time Past Rebel Nostalgia

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fear Power Great Service Stand Help

I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.

Douglas Hodge

Love New York City Trying You Down

I look for challenges. I really do.

David Slade

Challenges Look Really

I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

Brigitte Nielsen

Year Go Spectacular Every

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

Brooke Shields

Perspective Understanding Important