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Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

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Michael Scott
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 29
Actor
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Executive Producer
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Television Actor
Television Producer
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Ken Tremendous
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I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.
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You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.
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One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.
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So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.
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Great change always comes down to the actions of a single person.
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You need to play to win. But you also need to win ... to play.
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My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.
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It's always been Apple's goal to ship something we were proud of and something people would be proud to own, and I think that's still true from thirty years ago.
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Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.
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The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.
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They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!
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it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.
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You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.
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Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous
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A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.
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To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.
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The day we stop learning is the day we die.
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Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?' Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you.
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Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.
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You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory
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