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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The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.
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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 confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
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We aren't really called to save the world-not even to save one person; Jesus does that. We are just called to love with abandon. We are called to enter into our neighbors' sufferings and love them right there.
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Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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I went to Syracuse University.
