Walter Dean Myers Quotes
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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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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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.
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People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
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When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.
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It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
