Vera Brittain Quotes
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.
Quotes to Explore
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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Caring makes you want to work harder.
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There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.
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I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
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When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old Korean-American me insisted. I wanted Asian girls to see my face. And more than that, I wanted them to see what is possible.
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An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.
