John Boyne Quotes
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
John Boyne
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I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.
Zendaya
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
Maceo Parker
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
Malcolm Boyd
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Barack Obama
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
J. A. Jance
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
E. B. White
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
Manika
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.
William Shakespeare
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster
Fred Thompson
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When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
M. Scott Peck
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A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
Dan Gilroy
Breakfast Club
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Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.
David Shields
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I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
John Boyne
