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John Green Quotes

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 24, 1977

Topics

Habit Remember Want Kid Like Lives

I'm trying to be the messenger for the people that pay attention to me. And those people I want to help inspire because a lot of people maybe think it's - they're too cool for school. That's all I can ever do.

School People Me Cool Inspire Think

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

John Drinkwater

Good Music Poetry Perception Poet

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.

Andrew Sean Greer

Life Love Good Great Time Start

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

John Mellencamp

Good School Speech Exercise Class

Give your children all the time and energy. They need to be your number one priority.

Children Time Energy Need Give Your

You go to a protest, and you've got all these different groups saying things you don't necessarily agree with. If I went to a protest, my placard would have to be very long, explaining the ins and outs of my position.

Saying Long You Go Position Agree

What I say about 'This Is England' is they're like my best friends back home. Normal, working-class, beautiful people who I'm creative with.

Home Beautiful Best Creative People

My staples are a beautiful pair of black pants, a lightweight coat, a great black heel, and a black cardigan. Everything else is just a topping on my fashion sundae.

Beautiful Great Fashion Black Pants

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

History Civilization Teach Anything

I'm confident UTC could outperform in all of our markets, starting with our commercial businesses. The largest opportunities for our commercial businesses are in emerging markets, and we're very well positioned there.

Louis R. Chenevert

Opportunities Confident Starting Well

I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

Time Walk Step Tears Trail Over

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

Healing You Intimacy Out Anything

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