Jay Asher Quotes
Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
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My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
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We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.
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Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.
