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.Rebecca Serle
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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.
Van Morrison -
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.
E. M. Forster -
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.
Ingrid Betancourt -
We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
Wayne Coyne -
Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
Karen Gillan -
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.
Laura Ricketts
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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.
Ian Hacking -
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.
Taylor Lautner -
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.
Tayari Jones -
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.
Tayari Jones -
You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Brittany Snow -
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).
Frederik Pohl -
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.
Coco Lee -
I've never said anything about privatizing Social Security.
Bill Flores -
There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.
Asma Jahangir -
The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.
Ethel Watts Mumford -
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson -
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
Baden Powell -
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
R. Kelly -
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.
Rebecca Serle