Simone Elkeles Quotes

I get a lot of mail from boys in detention centers, including one from a center where they only had a few copies of my novel. They had a deal with each other that they'd read a couple of chapters and then slide it under the door to the next guy. I think that's very cool.

Simone Elkeles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 24, 1970

Topics

CoolDoorThinkMailNextGuy

I love focusing on what we have to do right here in Lexington.

Jim Gray

LoveRightHereFocusingI Love

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

John Goodman

MeOrchestraFrontPardon

Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not.

Melody Beattie

CrazyFeelSomeoneTryingPerson

I love art and fashion.

Mena Suvari

LoveArtFashionI Love

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Angelina Jolie

LifeHateDarknessLearnHumanity

I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keaton. I just love what he did. I love that mug.

Jeffrey Tambor

LoveThinkHeroesGuyJustMost

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Jean Paul

ParadiseOutCannotOnlyWhich

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Michael Fassbender

MyselfMeInfluenceAliveArtsVery

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

John Stossel

GoodCreativePeopleAmericaNobody

I really loved Andy Kaufman growing up, like every comedy person does. I like when sometimes the audience isn't quite sure what's supposed to be happening right then and that sort of unsafe feeling, as long as you're not punishing them.

Mike O'Brien

Growing UpLovedComedyLongYou

Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you.

Delta Goodrem

YouBodyKnowNowYour BodyListen

It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.

Chevy Chase

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