Nancy Farmer Quotes

I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.

Nancy Farmer

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Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.

Joe Scarborough

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I've never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.

Anna Kendrick

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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

Michael Ende

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What happened was, when I got into the brawl in Detroit, I was transitioning into a different type of person, that person that I've become, but that game had so many emotions involved.

Metta World Peace

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Usually with something like 'The 100,' because you're working so much and every day, and they'll change the drafts quite quickly, we'll go through maybe, like, 12 different versions of the same scene over a week. So there is no point in learning it on a Tuesday when on a Thursday it might be completely different.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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My favorite place in the world is L.A. It's my home.

Stella Maxwell

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I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them.

Stephane Hessel

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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Stanislaw Lem

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I make body chains that come from the neck, cross in the middle of your chest, then go around your waist. I mix them with feathers for a gypsy, bohemian style.

Sofia Boutella

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On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that.

Robert Webb

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I've always been entranced by writing.

Marv Levy

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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

Mitch Albom

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