Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

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• I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Should

• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Independent
  • Push

• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Me
  • Nothing

• I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Think
  • You
  • Go

• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Celebrate

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Yourself
  • Gift
  • Forgiveness

• I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • High
  • Try

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Morning

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• I started collecting baseball cards and basketball cards when I was younger. I have a CD collection that turned into a DVD collection, and I have a Jordan shoe collection. And I don't drink, but I have a wine collection. I just started a sweatshirt collection. Every city that I'm in, I buy a sweatshirt. It's just something that I do.

  

  Marques Houston
  • City
  • Baseball
  • Basketball

• Light itself is a revelation.

  

  James Turrell
  • Light

• In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • May

• It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing