Angie Thomas Quotes

For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.

Angie Thomas

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MirrorMyselfMeSongBookHip-Hop

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.

Melissa Rosenberg

StoryYouGroupOverEveryoneOut

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

Anatoly Karpov

PositiveWayImageImpressionWell

I learned how to cook by making soups, so I was thinking of how to make the most eco-friendly and green way to make soup. Obviously, using water and vegetables from your garden is the most sustainable way.

Anna Getty

WaterGreenSoupThinkingVegetables

The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

ChefReinventRoleDishesTweak

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

Merle Haggard

FreedomPrisonAmericaNowRight

I know we can find a bipartisan response to pressing challenges - like repairing, modernizing and adding to the infrastructure on which we all rely. I know it because I've seen it happen in my own state of Minnesota.

Amy Klobuchar

ChallengesFindKnowMy OwnOwn

I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory, but - and I hate to break this to the faithful - neither is Dan Brown.

Simon Toyne

HateFirstFaithfulBreakBrownDan

The moment I write out a cheque, it's an asset I have written off.

Shiv Nadar

MomentWriteOutOffAssetI Write

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Miguel de Cervantes

SuccessImpossibleOrderMustAbsurd

When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain.

Luke Harding

FamilySchoolBetterEarlyTable

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

Jay Chiat

WorkAdvertisingThinkYouWantUs

An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.

Peter O'Toole

WorldCornerKnownSymbolEvery

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