"As an author, you go into the school, it gets written about in the paper. It sucks that your book was banned, but you almost benefit from it. The bummer is all of the incredible educators. Nobody is writing about them. They are on the frontlines still, to this day, fighting to reinstate those programs."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Matt de la Pena

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #School Quotes

“Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”
“I wouldnâ€™t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.”
“Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.”
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”
“In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed that the earth, instead of being stationary, was moving around at a great and variable speed in a universe that is much bigger than it appears to our immediate perception. That proposal, I believe, was first made by Aristarchos two millenia ago ... Remarkably enough, the name Aristarchos in Greek means best beginning.”
“I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.”

Source : "Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.
“...â€œOh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,â€ exclaimed Anne. â€œYou maynâ€™t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, â€˜Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.â€™ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.â€...”
“As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.”

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