"Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us."

-- Mac Barnett

#Kids Quotes #Stories Quotes #Audience Quotes

“I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.”
“Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.”
“In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay.”
“I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.”
“The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.”

Source : "I hate awards. It's not my favourite thing to do" by William Fotheringham, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2007.
“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.”

Source : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press
“Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. ...he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal ...he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.”
“Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt we'll ever come to terms on tastes great or less filling and hybrids versus Hummers, and there will always be Yankees fans and Red Sox fans, and never the 'twain shall meet. Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.”

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