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I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.
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Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.


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As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
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My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.


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I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.


Barbara Mertz
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For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life.
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It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
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When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.


Hideo Kojima
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
Cao Yu
Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.
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Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.
Scott Speedman
Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.
Norman Rockwell
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So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.
Chris Roberson
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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I was totally into jazz in my teens.


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It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.


Norah Jones
It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.
Nick Davies
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