Lauren DeStefano Quotes
I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.
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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
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The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.
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Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
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There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.
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If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
Charles B. Rangel -
Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.
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The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue.
