Jessie Mueller Quotes
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I do not support a livable wage.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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I meet an enormous number of incredible people all the time, people I find very inspiring, and I'm very busy.
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You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.
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I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.
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I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.
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Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.
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Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.
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Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.
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There was such idiot minstrelsy in rain, So many clappers going without bells, That these bethous compose a heavenly gong. One voice repeating, one tireless chorister, The phrases of a single phrase, ke-ke, A single text, granite monotony
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'And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.'
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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.
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Often the willingness to think differently about a problem and then risk sharing the idea with others certainly pay off.
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If it was happening, I'd call it Heavenly Beast. If it wasn't happening, I usually call it Arsehole.
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The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.(Oct, 1994 interview).
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Horrible bosses may be one of the reasons why we decide to leave a company, but they can also teach us how not to lead teams when we have that responsibility.
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Free media is very essential for the democratic process and... development.
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When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.
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The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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I went to Syracuse University.
