Deborah Wiles Quotes

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Support
  • Gun
  • Safety

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Everyone
  • Apple
  • Mobile

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • American
  • Jews

• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Three
  • Worth
  • Spear

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• 'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writer
  • Monday

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Work
  • American
  • True

• I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Play
  • Model

• We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Family
  • You
  • Community

• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Man
  • Brave

• I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Me
  • Down
  • Gym

• I just love what Nicholas Britell did with 'Moonlight.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
  • Did
  • Moonlight

• I have a sense of Europe also being like home. I mean, Australia is my home, and my heart is there, but I suppose I've always felt close to Europe, given we had family there, and we would visit.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Home

• I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.

  

  Bille August
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Game
  • Win
  • Compete

• Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Important
  • Important Things

• I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

  

  Deborah Wiles
  • Life
  • Age