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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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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It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
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One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
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I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.
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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.
