Lee Gutkind Quotes
Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
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Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my own to fulfil my wish to become an actor. I didn't take any money from my parents to fulfil my dream.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
