Walter Dean Myers Quotes
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
