Jan Brett Quotes
When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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It's not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there's an idea that women don't matter in the world, then all women are diminished.
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Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
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Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
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The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
