Aidan Chambers Quotes
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
Aidan Chambers
Quotes to Explore
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
Camila Alves
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
Gary Gygax
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
Usain Bolt
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
J. R. Martinez
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Irving Babbitt
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In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
Jerry Yang
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
Harold Ramis
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The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.
John Edgar Wideman
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Up until the age of 13, girls are confident, and they feel like they can conquer the world. Then adolescence sets in, and girls lose their confidence. And 'Seventeen' is really about them taking an hour out of their month, unplugging, lying on their bed, and reading a magazine that believes in them.
Joanna Coles
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Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.
Cyril Tourneur
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
Aidan Chambers