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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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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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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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
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I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.
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It's very nice to be asked to anybody's wedding. Particularly if it's the Prince of Wales. I learned a lot from it, which was to end early and get away. I suppose one would have to look back historically and see who other royals had at their weddings. Were there people at Queen Elizabeth's wedding who were common like myself?
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
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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.