Rebecca Stead Quotes

Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

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• During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Listen

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Art
  • Space
  • Best

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Songs

• The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Science
  • Chance

• I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Style

• I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Friend
  • Civilization
  • Actions

• I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • People
  • Trying

• With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.

  

  Claire Foy
  • People
  • Family
  • Pain

• Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Different
  • Bad

• The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Family
  • Career

• We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Book

• I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Time

• If you get honest feedback and do nothing about it, then the feedback will stop.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Stop

• When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • People
  • Book
  • Friends

• Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • History
  • Black

• When you wear something different, you have to be confident that not everyone may get it at first.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Different
  • May

• I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.

  

  Peter Saul
  • Good
  • Long
  • Children

• People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • Different
  • Black
  • Faces