Meg Rosoff Quotes

I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.

Meg Rosoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 16, 1956

Topics

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As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler's mom.

Jennifer Coolidge

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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

Melinda Gates

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I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

Maya Angelou

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The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

Maury Yeston

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As a reader, I read quite widely.

Ruth Ware

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People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

Michael Zaslow

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Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Jonathan Sacks

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I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

Anton Corbijn

BeautyFindNeverHardUnderstood

When you model, you don't really have control over your image. It can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing. It can be a good thing in the sense that, actually, you have to get reintroduced to yourself. You don't always get that opportunity in your normal life. You can kind of hide from yourself.

Philomena Kwao

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I wish I could think of a suitable name for the kind of writing I do.

Phyllis A. Whitney

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I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.

Phyllida Lloyd

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