Jane Yolen Quotes
My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.

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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.
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Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.
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My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.