Ernst Mayr Quotes
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I've always considered myself something of a musical rebel.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.
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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
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Never use a conditional tense when it comes to money.
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I can't play a slave.
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When you know what the male species is looking for - 'I'm not into a redhead,' 'I don't want a fat chick,' - I have to tell them that X won't date you unless you're this. I'm just the messenger.
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One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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If you look at the old 'Mod Squad's, there was a lot of space in between our dialogue.
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As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.
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Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
