Jay Asher Quotes
Novels are a safe way to talk about things.
Jay Asher
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
Sally Phillips
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
Naomi Benaron
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
Ingrid Newkirk
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
Harald zur Hausen
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
Sadie Frost
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I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
Becki Newton
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In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.
Barack Obama
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Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students are talentless is cruel and wrong. I believe that certain writers like to believe they arrived into the world with special, unteachable powers because it is good for the ego.
Matt Haig
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
Michelangelo
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I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he Pete Rose brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.
Bill Clinton
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It really scared me to do what Mom did because I never did anything that she did. I promised her that I would never sing her songs, and I kept my promise. 'You sing them better than anybody. I don't want to be a second-rate example of you. I want to be a first-rate example of myself.'
Liza Minnelli
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Novels are a safe way to talk about things.
Jay Asher
