Walter Dean Myers Quotes
As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
Walter Dean Myers
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
Victor Grignard
In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
Barry Bostwick
My parents could not be more Italian.
Edoardo Ponti
Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
Tahl Raz
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
Adam Draper
I read everything and anything related to being queer. I found solace in reading authors like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, who would become my activist staples - their words helped me grow up and taught me how to be bold and courageous. By studying them, I came to understand that being young and queer and black would not be easy.
Patrisse Cullors
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
Aunjanue Ellis
I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.
Jackson Rathbone
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
Walter Dean Myers
