Jane Yolen Quotes
'Will you write the story?''If there is one.''Happy ending or no?' He was serious.She attempted a smile. 'Fairy tales always have a happy ending.'He leaned back in his chair. 'That depends.''On what?''On whether you are Rumplestiltskin or the Queen.'
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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God is everywhere.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Ruburt’s life as he knows it is not in my memory - because I did different things when I was Ruburt. And he is not bound by that reality that was mine.
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Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real.
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Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.
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'Will you write the story?''If there is one.''Happy ending or no?' He was serious.She attempted a smile. 'Fairy tales always have a happy ending.'He leaned back in his chair. 'That depends.''On what?''On whether you are Rumplestiltskin or the Queen.'
