Jay Asher Quotes
Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.
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We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a classic, tier-one traditional venture firm involved.
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Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.
