Jandy Nelson Quotes
I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.
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A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.
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I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.
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If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.
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I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love.
