"I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like."

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Source : Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

Donalyn Miller

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“There are only two types of music.good and bad.”
“The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality -- to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.”
“I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive.”
“If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.”
“If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.”

Source : "'Bunheads' Co-Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino". Interview with Diane Haithman and Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. July 27, 2012.
“WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.”
“Bad beliefs make bad behavior.”

Source : Warren Akin Candler (1927). “The Christ and the Creed ...”
“When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ***** and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.”

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