Jay Asher Quotes
With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process as well as the serious aspects I write about.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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When I'm nervous, I know I care about something - you should be nervous about things that you want.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.
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An attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth. (No. 11, p. 27)
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With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process as well as the serious aspects I write about.
