Jeffrey Thomas Quotes

Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.

Jeffrey Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1957

Topics

ExpectationsYouLeaveBeginnings

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Jo Stafford

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When I was in college, every summer I would work for free at a theater.

Jennifer Garner

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I'm a pretty open book, so not being out publicly felt inauthentic. Hopefully we can get to a point where your personal life isn't anybody else's business, but until then, it's less about people having to know about your sexuality than standing up for what's right and fighting for equality.

Megan Rapinoe

LifeBusinessEqualityPeopleBook

More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you need to decide - who do you want to be?

Michael Gerber

TimePeopleYouWantMoreNeed

I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on the track team. Wasn't on the football team. Wasn't on the basketball team. I was in the Number Sense Club.

Michael Dell

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Everyone knows what crappy food is: high grease, high fat... or what clean eating is. They just make excuses not to do it.

Robert Whittaker

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There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Michael Lewis

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A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

Lucille Ball

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I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

Aretha Franklin

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The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

Paula Cole

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My husband and I love to travel. For me, a dream vacation in Brazil begins first and foremost with a rad hotel. Then, number two is eating - eating delicious food nonstop, almost around the clock. And then a mix of relaxation and beaches, and doing adventures.

Shanola Hampton

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thomas Jefferson

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