Eliot Schrefer Quotes
Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
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The number of children in the world is not growing, and so we eventually have a chance to stabilize the population at around 10 billion. We have the technology and wherewithal to feed and provide energy for this many people.
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Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
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I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.
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When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - won the White House.
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The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.
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Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.
