Jeff Giles Quotes

The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do.

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• I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Women
  • Game

• If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • People
  • Time
  • High

• My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Pretty
  • Training
  • Thought

• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Point

• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• 'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

  

  Kajol
  • Body
  • Exercise
  • Working

• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Young
  • First

• I was a pretty difficult teenager.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Pretty
  • Difficult
  • Teenager

• I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Pretty
  • Change
  • Curious

• I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Feel

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Try

• If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Random

• I've been really fortunate to be associated with all these great shows.

  

  Diego Klattenhoff
  • Great

• It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

  

  Edward Bok
  • Country
  • American
  • Single

• Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

  

  Placido Domingo
  • God
  • Career
  • Fall

• The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do.

  

  Jeff Giles
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