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'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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For me, being in front of the camera and training go hand in hand.
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The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.
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I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
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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.
