Andrea Brown Quotes
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.
Quotes to Explore
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.
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We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here.
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One of our children when he was two or three years old used to rush at me when he had been naughty, and beat against me, and what he wanted by this monstrous behavior was an affirmation of love. And I would put my arms around him and hold him very tight until the dragon was gone and the loving small boy had returned.
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Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
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I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.
