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What is the greatest mistake a parent can make? she asked. To believe that your children will be just like you.

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Michael Scott
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 29
Actor
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Television Actor
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Ann Arbor
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We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.
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Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.
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I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.
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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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The day we stop learning is the day we die.
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There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.
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Nowadays I find chocolate and/or chocolate-based snacks to be great motivators. Everyone loves chocolate. If someone has a lot of work to do, put a piece of fudge in a glass container (so they can see it) and let them know that if they accomplish their tasks, they can eat the fudge. You'll definitely get a reaction!
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But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.
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Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes
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Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die.
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The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!
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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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I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been writer.
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There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.
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We're all homos. Homo sapiens.
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Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.
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What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.
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There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.
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Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?
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