Stephanie Perkins Quotes
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.
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Because my hair is curly, I used to do all the straighteners, the Japanese this and the Brazilian that. And at the end of the day, your hair ends up not having a texture, not having the body - no shine. You're pretty much frying your hair. So understand the type of hair you have and do the best with what you have.
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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
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I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
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Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.
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I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to look back on my life one day and say, 'Damn, I wish I hadn't spent so much time with my children.'
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We wish the past two years could have been smoother.
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I'm not fighting with myself.
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I wish for the thing that is best for me.
