Linda Sue Park Quotes
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.
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You can't make cheese from rats. … It's hard enough just milking the little beggar.
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It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different.
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Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.
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I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
