Darren Shan Quotes

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Darren Shan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

Jeffrey Wright

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Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you're seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit.

Anita Elberse

ThinkYouSeeingCreateThreeSee

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

Andy Partridge

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There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

John Saxon

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I've started taking long walks in the park, which is quite wonderful.

Sonny Mehta

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I run every day now. I never ran before.

Travis Barker

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For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

Michael Kors

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My favorite thing to do is make music. It's what I spend most of my free time doing.

Miles Heizer

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What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

Louise Leakey

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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

Diane Ackerman

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I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

Diablo Cody

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