Lauren Tarshis Quotes

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

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• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • You
  • Opportunities

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • College
  • Thought

• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Talent

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Enough
  • Call
  • Guess

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• I don't talk in ifs.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Talk
  • Ifs

• I did two or three plays every summer.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Summer
  • Two
  • Three

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Homosexual
  • Microphone
  • Podium

• However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Forever
  • Thought

• 'Heel Turn 2' is about a person who's in a match, and he's playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you're standing in the middle of a ring, and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Real

• We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won; cause Ali is the greatest.

  

  Jim Capaldi
  • Up

• Seattle was hardly a tech magnet before Amazon, Microsoft, and then a host of once-fledgling technology firms set up operations there.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • Up
  • Technology

• Of course whenever you make the playoffs it's an exciting time of year. All the past records go out the window, but at the same time it's a one-shot deal and you have to get it right the first time or else you have to go home for the summer. Every kids' dream is to make it to the state tournament. Our kids are no different from anybody else.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Home

• Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

  

  Lauren Tarshis
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