Jay Asher Quotes
Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.Jay Asher
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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.
Harold Nicholas -
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Daisy Berkowitz -
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.
Sadie Jones -
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
Daniel Craig -
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.
Zoe Kazan
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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.
Oriana Fallaci -
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.
Tamra Davis -
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.
Ian Anderson -
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
Iggy Pop -
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
Sam Palladio -
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.
Fatou Bensouda
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
Jackie Chan -
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.
Natan Sharansky -
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
Vikram Seth -
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.
Zadie Smith -
I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
Barbra Streisand -
I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
J. R. Martinez -
We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.
Lloyd Dorfman -
Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
Judy Blume -
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.
Emilia Clarke -
Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.
Jay Asher