Jane Yolen Quotes
It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
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It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy.
