Paul Fleischman Quotes
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I like to discover new things.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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It's not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it's more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.
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I'm lucky because I have the ability to look at the brighter side of life.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
