Robert Cormier Quotes

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

Robert Cormier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1925 - November 2, 2000

Topics

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When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

Jensen Ackles

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In general, people are administered drugs too readily.

John McEnroe

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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

John Stuart Mill

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The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

Steve Lacy

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People feel better when their spouses have good friendships, over and above the effects of their own friendships.

Stephanie Coontz

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I am single. Acting can make it hard to have profound relationships if you're not careful. You get into this pattern of three-month, four-month jobs and 'what's the next adventure.'

Tom Hollander

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The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

Rupert Everett

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My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place!

Martina Navratilova

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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

Logic

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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Jean Cocteau

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When I am at home writing, I have all the power. I am God. But TV is a polytheistic universe.

Diana Gabaldon

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