C. Terry Warner Quotes
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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I like to support local record stores.
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I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.
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I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.
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We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.
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It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard, that's our history! We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.
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The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the established order.
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I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.
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Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.
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He said, "Hi, gorgeous," which I think is nice. I admire honesty.
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Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
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I read many years ago how healthcare was organized in Ancient Chinese villages. They have a doctor, and this doctor was paid one egg or chicken by each family when each family member was healthy. When something goes wrong, they stop paying. So the doctor was motivated not to spend money for healing but to spend money for preventing disease. This the product. You should organize the system that way. The system as a whole is setting the product of maintaining health.
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Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
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I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.
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While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.
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Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?
