Marissa Moss Quotes
New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.

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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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好雨知時節,當春乃發生。隨風潛入夜,潤物細無聲。
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President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'
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A lot of people think YouTube is quite easy, when it just isn't. I've been doing YouTube for six years now, and I'd say the hardest years were definitely the first three or four. You have to constantly put out content that is good just to make people come back to your channel, and I work every single day just to try and expand my brand.
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New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.