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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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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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 didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.
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It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
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I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
