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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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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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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There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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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.
