"Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned"

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Rick Riordan

#Given Quotes #Values Quotes

“Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make”
“More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.”
“You want to invite new ideas, not new rules.”
“Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.”
“I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to think of documentaries now as talking heads. This movie about Valentino is not about that at all. It's about watching people in action. To the critics who wanted more talking heads, I send a dozen dead roses.”
“I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.”
“Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.”

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