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John Boyne Quotes

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: April 30, 1971

Topics

Age Focus Book First Whole Writer

A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

Change Change The World I Am People

I think that when moms just give themselves up, the kids know. They feel guilty; they resent their mother for making them feel guilty, and then they grow up and do the same thing. Whereas my mother showed me that it's okay to focus on yourself.

Jillian Michaels

Mother Focus Yourself Me Think Grow

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Robert Kiyosaki

Nature Blame Someone Human Nature

I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.

Future Business Think You Say Will

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

Home Music Time Listening Reading

A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Medical Strong Powerful Rules Test

And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

Looking Only Like The Only Thing

Service is the key to everything in life.

Russell Simmons

Life Service Key Everything

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.

Michael Kinsley

Government You House Out Property

I don't have to pitch movies. I'm no good at it!

Good Movies Pitch

I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

Beauty Classic Little Quirky Offbeat

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

Democracy Free Essence Electorate

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