Wendy Mass Quotes

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

Wendy Mass

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• I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Age

• A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

  

  Ice T
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Words

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • Live
  • Day

• As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Name
  • Witty

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Love
  • Beach

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Courage
  • Pessimism

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Start

• I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Work Hard

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Idea
  • Racial
  • Gathering

• I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Money
  • Want
  • Lying

• The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Issues
  • Vote
  • Only

• I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Body

• You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • You
  • Out
  • Network

• Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Time

• Agent Coulson takes the work very seriously. He certainly has some fun with Spider-Man and the others, but he takes each of their tasks, including when they get involved with the drama club, way too seriously. The adventures that they come up with are really exciting.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Political
  • Beginning
  • Struggle

• We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Reading
  • Curiosity

• The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

  

  Wendy Mass
  • Life
  • Fields
  • Sidelines