Jeff Giles Quotes

I'd been wanting to try a YA novel for years because I saw how exciting the genre was and how amazing, hungry, and curious the readers were.

Jeff Giles

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CuriousAmazingTryYearsHungry

I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.

Andy Biersack

ThinkAnythingSixI ThinkMonths

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

LifeMoreEverythingMustThan

I just never want to be in this situation where I get to set and they're like, 'We rewrote this scene, you're now naked.' I need a little prep work.

Max Greenfield

WorkYouSituationNowWantNever

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

Jean Piaget

AloneImaginationIntelligenceFirst

The notion that marriage is an impediment to commitments to the larger community is a long-standing one - and one reason early Christians did not place the institution at the top of their moral hierarchy, complaining that married couples cared more about pleasing each other than doing the Lord's work.

Stephanie Coontz

WorkMarriageCommunityDoingEarly

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

Tommy Lee Jones

HumorSense Of HumorSenseSortAny

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

Mary Karr

StyleYourselfTryingYouChoose

You can meet somebody at a club. You can meet somebody at a restaurant. But maybe that person is not on the same page. Maybe that person is like, 'I'm starting out, I don't want to get married now.' Or, 'I don't want to have kids.'

Juan Pablo Galavis

GirlWalkJudgeSomeoneStreetSee

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Joshua Foer

CommunicationTodayEndDesignMore

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

Janez Drnovsek

PartnershipJustWhichIraqAtlantic

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

Douglas Tompkins

LifeWorkPeopleClothesSelling

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

Peter Dinklage

ThinkYouTelevisionSaidFollow

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