Patricia Briggs Quotes

When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

Patricia Briggs

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I love doing period work, like all the trappings and the wigs and everything. It really helps when it's such a different world that you're immersing yourself in; it helps to get into the story, I think, and step into that different place.

Joanna Going

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I never had a proper modeling career. It was not something I succeeded in. Once I started acting, that's when the fashion world kind of embraced me.

Mia Goth

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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce

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Lots of people feel more alive when they're riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it can't possibly last.

Tracy McMillan

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I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

Mary Augusta Ward

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Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.

Mike Quigley

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Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!

Mitt Romney

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I'm not one of those superstitious people.

Luke Evans

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I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.

Lotte Verbeek

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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

Jean Baudrillard

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When Beethoven's Seventh Symphony was premiered, after the second movement, they clapped so much that they had the repeat the second movement and do it again.

Joshua Bell

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Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

Jose Mujica

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