"Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.He's okay for now."

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Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gary D. Schmidt

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“There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.”
“The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.”
“The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the level of job control, indicating that the spike during work hours was specifically caused by lack of choice on the job. People with little control over their work also experienced more back pain, missed more days of work due to illness in general, and had higher rates of mental illness-the human equivalent of stereotypies, resulting in the decreased quality of life common to animals reared in captivity.”
“I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.”
“People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else.”
“I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.”
“Being inundated with constant "bad" news from the media doesn't help.”
“The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.”

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