Charles J. Shields Quotes
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
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I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.
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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.
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I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
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The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I got back home and began to follow the war on TV and in the press I began to see this enormous con game - I can't think of any other word for it - that government and the military was foisting on the American people, especially on the young men of my generation, and even worse, the young men of my generation who weren't particularly economically or intellectually privileged.
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In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
