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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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
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Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.
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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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Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.
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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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To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
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I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.
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I went to Syracuse University.
