"The train is roaring toward you and the……" — Robin McKinley
"The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope."
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113 Quotes by Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley has 113 quotes on this site.
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The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever…
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Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If…
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Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows…
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One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact…
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But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes.…
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I long for another human face just as I fear it.
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I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow…
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I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have…
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I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the…
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What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that…
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The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?
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I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class,…
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More Fussing Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
— Paul McCartney
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The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop…
— Douglas Harding
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It’s funny how all the fussing and fighting turns into us f-king and flying.
— Wiz Khalifa
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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
— Bear Bryant
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Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees…
— Steven Saylor
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Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring…
— Natalie Babbitt
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One nice thing about my momma is, she never gets on you for what you are not doing. I mean,…
— Bruce Brooks
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Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation
— May Sarton
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I want you to notice nature, how geese are in flight and they form a V in a leadership role…The…
— Judy Bonds
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I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being…
— Emma Stone
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The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it…
— Nicholson Baker
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Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down…
— Brenda Fassie
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