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R. L. Stine

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DAVID CHANG I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've trie...
TOM FRESTON I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.
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FLORENCE WELCH I've never had a TV in my whole life. Television passed by me.
ESTHER DUFLO I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two inval...
STEPHEN COLE I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I d...
JOHN HURT I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused...
HOWIE MANDEL If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been ve...
ZENDAYA I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
BRYAN ADAMS Winning my first UFC fight by a finish, I've never felt so accomplished in my life.
PAIGE VANZANT I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.
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QUINCY JONES I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around ...
PAUL PIERCE I've never been fired in my life.
KARA DIOGUARDI I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just...
MOBY I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.
BRET MICHAELS I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a l...
BARRY HUMPHRIES I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
MAYA RUDOLPH I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.
MARILYN MONROE I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part...
JOSS WHEDON Love, what you DO, Respect, who DOES for you, Appreciate, who DOES for others, Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They'...
EDIE FALCO I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.
JESSICA LANGE After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I'...
LARA LOGAN I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of se...
WILL FERRELL I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been drive...
KEVIN GARNETT I've been truly blessed. I've been a fly on the wall of history. I've been just so many ...
ARTHUR LAFFER I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them al...
JOE BIDEN I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or...
DAN STEVENS I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had t...
EARL HAMNER, JR. I've never been a materialist; I've never been somebody who believes in only what we can see...
SCOTT DERRICKSON I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or ...
LARRY DRAKE I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, ...
BEVERLY LEWIS I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the t...
HENRY ROLLINS I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenw...
DIABLO CODY Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've ...
WINONA RYDER I've never played for a draw in my life.
ALEX FERGUSON My parents are divorced, but they have and always are there for me. They've never missed a ball ...
ERIC WINTER Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and un...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, b...
TESS GERRITSEN I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.
BARRY GIBB I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio st...
HOWARD STERN I've never been particularly good at explaining or even understanding what this sort of rage is ...
JASON ROBERT BROWN I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn&...
FKA TWIGS There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a t...
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LAURA FRASER I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.
LEVEN RAMBIN I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people...
TYLER PERRY I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with m...
BARBARA CORCORAN I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my mo...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails...
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STEVE MARTIN I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.
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COREY TAYLOR I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living ...
MICHAEL WINTER I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its ind...
GAVIN NEWSOM I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. W...
CHERIE LUNGHI I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.
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LAWRENCE KUDLOW I've never met Charlie Sheen.
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KATEE SACKHOFF I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitaria...
JULIAN LENNON I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
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BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.
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CARRIE-ANNE MOSS The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning...
KIRI TE KANAWA The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen ...
JOSHUA BELL I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a wo...
KHALED HOSSEINI I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn'...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not i...
KEN LIVINGSTONE I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
ROBBIE WILLIAMS I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics...
CHARLES BARKLEY I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so l...
CANDICE BERGEN All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.
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FOREST WHITAKER I've never been with women, because I'm celibate, as ordered by God, as if I were in a monas...
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ALEX KINGSTON It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've wri...
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NEON HITCH I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. I...
CHRISTINE MCVIE I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.
DOLLY PARTON I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people heal...
DAVID H. MURDOCK I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never b...
OLIVIA COLMAN I've never been a fan of euphemism.
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L. L. HENDREN Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
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L. L. HENDREN Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write un...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religio...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more p...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wa...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives.
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