Nikki Grimes Quotes
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I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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Computers make me totally blank out.
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
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To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
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Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.
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I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
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Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
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I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
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We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
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When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports.
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Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.
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I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it's received well, and it has been so far.
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I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.
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A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.
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There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
