"If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Not Good Enough Quotes

“I'm not playing a character. What I'm doing though is taking the worst, most shameful, peculiar, or troubling aspects of my personality. So there are elements of me that are not there. The happy version of me is not really in the show, because there's nothing funny about being happy. So it's more like I'm poaching on the funniest parts of me rather than actually creating some other character.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 18, 2012.
“It’s tricky when you’re doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don’t have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.”

Source : "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.
“The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.”
“Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment. A library is one of those places. In a library you can learn by following your own nose, which is very different from someone telling you what you should learn. Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I've seen it happen. It happened to me.”
“Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.”
“Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.”

Source : Jefferson Bass (2010). “Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Thriller”, p.152, Hachette UK
“LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.”

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