Matt de la Pena Quotes

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

Matt de la Pena

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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

ExpectationsYouLeaveBeginnings

When I started my blog, it was really this one goal - I said, 'I am not going to be famous to the world, but I could be famous to people on the Internet.' And I set a goal. I said, 'I'm going to win an award,' because I had never won an award in my entire life.

Mena Grabowski Trott

LifeI AmPeopleWinWorldAward

I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.

Robert H. Schuller

EducationTrainingNeverDifferent

There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.

Maryanne Wolf

BrainReadingLearnCreatingNew

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.

Mary Oliver

DayJobEffortMeBelieveWhy

My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back to explain something, to help make a connection, to add a joke, or to just add babble because the people are in frame and should be saying something.

Joss Whedon

PeopleWritingSayingHelpYouBack

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

Dierks Bentley

MeThinkWantRightI ThinkVersion

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Delta Goodrem

LifeAgeMy LifeSeriousYoungLike

Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.

Donatella Versace

ChangePeopleSometimesAfraidBig

I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure.

Daymond John

WorkDoingLookKnowNeedExposure

I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

Claire Foy

HateYouKnowActorPoseEveryone

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

Bruce Forsyth

AchievementSingingLaughYouFirst

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