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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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'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
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I believe kids should choose what they want to do, because it's their life, but they have to choose something, and they can't quit in the middle unless there's a really good reason. There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don't want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.
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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.
