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Russell Smith Quotes

The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.

Russell Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 2, 1963

Topics

Age Fun Looking Easy New Know

When you make a stance, sometimes there are consequences.

Andre Ward

You Consequences Sometimes Stance

I lived in Chicago in the early '80s and did a ton of theater, and then Nick lived there in the '90s and did a ton of theater. Then we both moved to L.A. and did a ton of television.

Megan Mullally

Early Television Chicago Lived Moved

Security is a complicated idea and one with an immense potential to trap us - that was one lesson I learnt from my father.

John Lanchester

Father Potential Lesson Security Us

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

Ang Lee

Master Slave Rather Films

Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there's one thing that even climate denialists don't dispute, dry things burn.

Jeff Goodell

Long Burn Places Global Warming Dry

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

John Polanyi

Responsibility Society New Sense

My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood.

Robert Crais

Dog Job Me Cleaning Hollywood Hot

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Myself Confident Want

I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break.

Mary H.K. Choi

Pressure Physics Know Break Intense

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

Louis C. K.

People You Say Two Out Decide

Facts are often complicated.

Josh Hawley

Facts Complicated Often

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Doris Lessing

Mother War World Messed Up She Up