Rebecca Stead Quotes
If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.
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Writing a book is not a crime.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.
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What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.
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If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.
