Walter Dean Myers Quotes
And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
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This is the only thing I know.
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White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.
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I don't do meetings.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
