Jay Asher Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
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There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.
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Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.
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Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.
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Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
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What sustains us in any competition are the moments of interiority when the competition vanishes; what sustains us in any struggle are the moments when we forget the struggle.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I always do what I feel and say what I think.
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I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.
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Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
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It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.
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Zombies are my ticket to ride! It's how I get a deal! I don't care what they are. I don't care where they came from.
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Novels are a safe way to talk about things.
