Jane Yolen Quotes
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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I definitely want to design clothes at one point.
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My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.
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One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.
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I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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'I’ll drive. You navigate.' He grinned. 'I judge people by how well they read maps.'
