Shari Sebbens Quotes
Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.
Quotes to Explore
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
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I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
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Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
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Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.
