Rebecca Serle Quotes
I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved the economy of this art form, choosing, with pristine attention, the exact right words to tell the exact right story.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
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I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
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My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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I play 'Just Dance' all the time - actually my girlfriends and I have slumber parties where we actually do this on a monthly basis and make total fools of ourselves.
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
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I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.
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All actors think every job will be their last.
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
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I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it's not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I'm grateful for that.
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The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.
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I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved the economy of this art form, choosing, with pristine attention, the exact right words to tell the exact right story.
