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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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
