"And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It doesn't really matter. So, why are we practicing? She thought for a minute. Because it gives comfort, she said. People like to think that if they're prepared then nothing bad can really happen. And perhaps we practice because we feel as if there's nothing else we can do because sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

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Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gary D. Schmidt

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“I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.”

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“The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.”
“It all begins with you. If you do not take care of yourself, you will not be strong enough to take care of anything in life.”
“Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock . Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.”
“They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and it's 86 pages already. Attention span. What are they talking about? If it's good, it'll drag you in.”

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“My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!”

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“The People, when they start to applaud you and support, that means a lot”

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