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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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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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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The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
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Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!
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What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
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Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
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Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often occur in a split second, after which nothing is ever the same.
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Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.
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In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
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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.
