- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Discriminating
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.
- Netflix
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- Nov 07, 2020
Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that.
- Street
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
- Going Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
- Different Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020