Kathryn Stockett Quotes
On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.
Kathryn Stockett
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
Xavier Niel
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
Cara Delevingne
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
Tea Obreht
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked!
Jennifer Morrison
Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to a football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback's idea.
John Madden
I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.
Drew Daywalt
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.
Marge Piercy
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
Maeve Binchy
On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.
Kathryn Stockett
