Esther Renay Dean (Ester Dean) Quotes
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.
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I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.