Jane Yolen Quotes
I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.
