Darren Shan Quotes

I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.' I loved the hidden, scary layers, but there wasn't that much around for youngsters in terms of horror books. I can remember reading Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot' and 'Cujo,' but I thought there should be more for teenaged horror fans.

Darren Shan

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 2, 1972

Topics

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We all - if we are honest with ourselves, we all have these dark spaces within our souls that we don't always want to talk about or acknowledge.

Jim Starlin

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Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

Jesse Ventura

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Sometimes I'm working at the training ground, sometimes at my home.

Maurizio Sarri

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The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

Matt Taibbi

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Sting was one of my first and biggest influences. One night in North Carolina, when I reached out and touched his shoulder, he had the face paint on, and I didn't know why, but I loved it. I wanted to be just like him, and I was only 11 years old.

Jeff Hardy

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It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child's brain at the elementary levels.

Johnathon Schaech

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People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

Johnny Carson

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The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe.

Robert Dallek

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I'm amazed that people are even still wanting to listen to us.

Mike McCready

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Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?

Julia Sweeney

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Tabloid newspapers are very rich and hold huge funds to fight claims.

Diana Rigg

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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

Douglass North

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