Rebecca Stead Quotes
I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.
Quotes to Explore
-
Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
-
I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
-
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
-
I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
-
As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
-
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
-
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
-
Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
-
I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.
-
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
-
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
-
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
-
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
-
My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.
-
Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
-
New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
-
In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.
-
I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.
-
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
-
[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
-
It's not my ambition to be a big star.
-
I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.
