Laura van den Berg Quotes

I once took a workshop with Jim Shepard, and he has this term, 'rate-of-revelation,' that has come to mean a lot to me: 'the pace at which we're learning crucial emotional information about the stories' central figures.' An ever-increasing rate-of-revelation is good; a stagnant r-of-r is not.

Laura van den Berg

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LearningGoodMeInformationMean

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.

John Key

NewDebtMoreZealandNew Zealand

I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

Jeff Vandermeer

ScienceHorrorScience FictionFan

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Sofia Vergara

SchoolThoughtYouKnowLivingOut

I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

Trenton Lee Stewart

HomeMyselfTreesThinkingRemember

The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don't pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it's a cheaper way of producing something else.

Ronald Coase

GoodPeopleMeGood PeopleProblem

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

Jason Statham

CharacterLookingWantTestAlways

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

Josh Duhamel

WifeYouKnowWillSheDogs

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

Jonathan Cain

JourneyKnowNextPayCheckWhere

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

Courtney Barnett

LoveSongYouFirstExistEven

I did two films that have a great following. One is 'Caddyshack,' one is 'Tron.' To tell you the truth, most people don't know that it's me in both films.

Cindy Morgan

TruthGreatPeopleMeYouKnow

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.

Bode Miller

MusicMomGrowing UpElectricityUp

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Marilyn Monroe

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