Chris Raschka Quotes
With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.
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And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
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A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
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This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.
