Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

Maggie Stiefvater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1981

Topics

CultureDeathFictionLivedWhere

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

Joe Louis

PeopleWorldBetterYouNeedMake

My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South.

John Edgar Wideman

HistoryCultureSpeakGeneration

I don't know if you've ever tried to run through waist-deep snow, but it's next to impossible.

Melanie Scrofano

SnowImpossibleYouKnowRunNext

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine.

Maxwell

MusicConfidentWantWhyIntentions

Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio. I tried to be the class clown, so I spent a lot of time in detention.

Trevor Moore

GoodTimeMeGradesGood Grades

Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.

Mary Roach

PeopleLegendsWearAstronautsJust

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

Marvin Olasky

ChildrenYoungOldOverDifferent

If it's truly a passion, and it's truly something you believe in, then you need to do it.

Miriam Shor

PassionBelieveYouNeedSomething

I have a strong, inspiring, and professional group of women around me with Boels-Dolmans. We race and train incredibly hard as a team.

Lizzie Armitstead

WomenMeTeamStrongProfessional

It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.

Jay Parini

TimeStrongPlaceSeriouslyAnything

I cooked a little bit in my first movie; I did a movie called 'Made.' For the little kid in the movie, I do a scene where I'm preparing a pasta puttanesca. I always loved watching that scene.

Jon Favreau

LovedPastaFirstWatchingKidMade

I had the good fortune to be raised in the 1940s and the 1950s. As I entered business in the late 1950s and 1960s, America was just coming into its own as a great industrial power. It allowed young entrepreneurs to start their engines, to start their businesses, to borrow a little money and to leverage what they had.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

GoodBusinessPowerGreatMoney

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