Rebecca Stead Quotes
The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
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I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
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I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
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I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.
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I went straight from the Marine Corps to the MFA. The way that you would express things among Marines is somewhat different than the way you're supposed to express things in a creative-writing workshop.
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The writing seems to be on the wall at this point. Prices are still falling. Meanwhile, the supply continues to rise.
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Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
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God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
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The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.
