Tomi Adeyemi Quotes

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.

Tomi Adeyemi

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GirlWorldBookBlackPerfectNeed

When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

Joe Morgan

Growing UpReachYouDreamGrowing

You don't often get a choice in who your enemies are, who you're friends with, what your situation is, and the environment you're placed in. You just have to make do with what you have.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

FriendsEnvironmentYouChoiceGet

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

Stella Adler

TimeSpiritualTheatreSocialX-Ray

So much has changed in our business. E-books, that's been one of the principal developments. There has been also the failure of Borders and the rise of Amazon, just to name two others.

Sonny Mehta

FailureBusinessNameRisePrincipal

Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeAppearanceKnowMatterTask

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

Donald Justice

SilenceBurdenWayLandOthersEase

I guess the news is this: If you're a Republican and you smile, liberals don't like it. Maybe that's because Democrats are afraid that I've been able to show an optimistic vision for this country.

Cory Gardner

SmileVisionYouCountryNewsBeen

I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.

Brian K. Vaughan

LifeBalanceFeelComedyLife Is A

Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

Arthur Middleton

ExperiencePeopleMomentsMany

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

William Godwin

YouthFreeCareParentNeverDanger

The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.

Pierce Brosnan

GreatIrishSure

South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'

Sydney Pollack

HomeYouKnowNiceBendHomesick

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