Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
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Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.
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I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
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I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
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Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.
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And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.
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Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
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If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.
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When most people think of Tae Kwon Do - which, in the United States, is not all that often - they think of sparring, a form of competition that both men and women perform at the Olympics.
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I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
