Andrew Clements Quotes
I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.
Andrew Clements
Quotes to Explore
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
Barnaby C. Keeney
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
Bart Stupak
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
Felicia Day
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
Francia Raisa
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
Dan Brown
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
Inga Cadranel
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
Tabatha Coffey
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
Adam Pally
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
Jack Black
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What happened to me is I gained a little weight so I could be more accessible to people. They're not like, 'Oh my God, he's, like, a male model comedian; yuck, ugh.' It's like, 'Oh, he's a little squishy; He's like me. He's accessible.' And girls are like, 'Look how cuddly he is. I just want to cuddle up in his neck fat and go to sleep.'
Adam DeVine
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Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.
James Howard Kunstler
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The Internet makes writing about restaurants easier and more interesting in quite a few ways, one of the main ones being to do with the mundane business of checking what's on the menu.
John Lanchester
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Imagine a world where mothers take as good care of themselves as they do their children and a world where mothers are so supported they're able to do that. That's the world we all need to create because our children, families, and communities are depending on us.
Christy Turlington
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In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And yet back end processes - the amount of time you have to wait when you sell a stock before cash hits your account - can take days.
Blythe Masters
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I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.
Andrew Clements
