Jon Scieszka Quotes
We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Oh, I love Nottingham. I know some people go, 'Oh God, there's not much going off there,' but I like staying in and going round to my mum and dad's for a Sunday roast.
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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And the heavy night hung dark,The hills and waters o'er,When a band of exiles moored their barkOn the wild New England shore.
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Music a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.
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Spot the falsehood of history and find out the truth.
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A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
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The challenge is: How can people gain control over the residues of past trauma and return to being masters of their own ship? Talking, understanding, and human connections help, and drugs can dampen hyperactive alarm systems. But we will also see that the imprints from the past can be transformed by having physical experiences that directly contradict the helplessness, rage, and collapse that are part of trauma, and thereby regaining self-mastery.
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Dreaming a dream to prize, Is wishing ghosts to rise; And, if I had the spell To call the buried - well, Which one would I?
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We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.
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You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.
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We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
