Deborah Wiles Quotes
I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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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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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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Sometimes I hear, particularly from Russia, that we simply hate Russia and don't like to co-operate, that we are hysterical about the risks. But this is totally untrue. We would greatly benefit economically if our neighbour was a democratic, developing country.
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Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to.
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I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.
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I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.
