Rumaan Alam Quotes

It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.

Rumaan Alam

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My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

Jessica Valenti

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When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30.

Melissa Joan Hart

MyselfFirstOutGotRemindTurning

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

John Ridley

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Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

Ameen Rihani

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I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Tom Lenk

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You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

Tom Kite

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There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

Claire Danes

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I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

Brandon Stanton

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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

Anton Yelchin

WorkGreatPeopleInterestingLucky

Your love is your love. It doesn't matter whether you're 18 or 68; there can still be someone that makes you feel that way.

Ashley McBryde

LoveLove IsFeelSomeoneYouWay

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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