Ellen Hopkins Quotes
I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
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You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.
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I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.
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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
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Four months after we released 'I Don't Want to Be Funny Anymore,' the album came out on EggHunt. Three months after that, we officially signed with Matador. That's not a very long time: half a year between the first flood and the final signing.
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It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?
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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
