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.Jandy Nelson
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
Rahul Dravid -
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler -
I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin -
You don't have to get it right the first time.
Barbara Sher -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
Jackson Brundage
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
E. W. Howe -
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
Hamish Bowles -
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson -
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
Orlando Bloom -
I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
Bear Bryant -
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster
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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.
Zig Ziglar -
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
Randy Neugebauer -
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.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
Van Morrison -
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
Dan Marino -
If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
Tavi Gevinson
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I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.
Andy Cohen -
When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I think that I've had a very strange life.
Joanne Rowling -
Is everyone who uses a MacBook Pro a pro? No. It's just basically a faster Mac. And certainly, pros do use them, partly for that reason.
John Gruber -
My first time in front of a camera, I said, 'Wonder Woman, I'm so glad you're here.' That's how I made a living.
Judge Reinhold -
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.
Jandy Nelson