Tamora Pierce Quotes
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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Writers are so important.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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When will we learn that we can't allow our politicians to bully the world without someone bullying back eventually?
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.
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I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
