Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

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• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Nature
  • Dream
  • Religion

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Country
  • Children
  • See

• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I'm capable of achieving if I put my mind to it and how hard work can and will pay off in the end. It gave me confidence and taught me to face fear straight on and dig down deep when times get tough.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Work
  • Winning

• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
  • Proud
  • Issues

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Great
  • Around
  • Table

• However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Forever
  • Thought

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Different
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Work
  • Men
  • Country

• If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.

  

  Emily Browning
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Focus

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.

  

  Jimmy Dean
  • Music
  • Church

• I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
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