Walter Dean Myers Quotes

I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.

Walter Dean Myers

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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

Saina Nehwal
- Important
- Think
- Really
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

J. D. Vance
- People
- Society
- Data
I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

Victoria Pratt
- Forever
- Years
- Doing
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- Long
- Art
- Remember
Tone can be as important as text.

Ed Koch
- Important
- Text
- Tone
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

Barry Eisler
- Different
- Trying
- Book