Russell Smith Quotes

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Russell Smith

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I just love pranks, man. They're great. I don't understand why people don't do 'em more often.

Jermaine Fowler

LoveGreatManPeopleUnderstand

I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

SonTimeMomentBestDoingYou

Communication is the channel through which life is conveyed, through which ideas and the energy behind them are transmitted, and through which the mind, body, and spirit are merged into a force for right action.

Michael Gerber

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I get along better with men.

Stormy Daniels

MenBetterAlongGet

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

Martine McCutcheon

LoveLuxuryNicePoorThingsSheets

Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.

Jose Andres

FatherFirePeopleMeGrowing Up

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

David Suzuki

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I don't put any extra pressure on myself for national team games.

Christian Pulisic

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I don't perm my hair anymore, but I'm not a natural hair expert just because it grows out of my head like that.

Winnie Harlow

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A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Susan Cain

DisappointmentSocietySelfBoldOur

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

Pee Wee Reese

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I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

Richie Sambora

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