Jennifer Yuh Nelson Quotes

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

John Glenn

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I always thought the list needed to be longer. We needed to have a stronger representation of Jewish athletes, and I'm so happy to that I'm part of them now.

Max Aaron

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Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.

Stephen Kinzer

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I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Rod Stewart

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I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.

Michael Trucco

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My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.

Joseph Bruchac

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Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

Bob Fosse

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I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

Bob Geldof

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The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.

Reza Aslan

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I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

James Hillman

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I never choose my opponents, but I think the biggest fight that everybody wants to watch, the fans want to watch, is me and Ronda.

Cris Cyborg

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Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

Cecil B. DeMille

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