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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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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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
Questlove
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It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.
Abigail Breslin
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It would get really alienating, to have my face be the face of a cause. So much just comes down to the songs. I just want to give us the opportunity to write great songs. Even our work in Haiti is limited by how good our songs are. We just need to get rid of as much of the bullshit as possible, so we can have a life, so we have something to write about.
Edwin Farnham Butler III
Arcade Fire
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I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.
Quentin Crisp
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In the Civil Rights Act of 1965, we affirmed through law for every citizen in this land the most basic right of democracy-the right of a citizen to vote in an election in his country. In the five States where the Act had its greater impact, Negro voter registration has already more than doubled.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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
