Rumaan Alam Quotes

Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

Rumaan Alam

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ChildrenWorldLiteratureProduct

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

Jessie Mueller

FeelYouImportantLivingBreathing

Acting is actually private.

Joan Chen

ActingActuallyPrivate

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

John Burroughs

MotivationalNobodySomebodyWhoDid

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

John Oliver

UnderstandWitDryJust

I recommend the art of slow reading.

Amos Oz

ArtReadingSlowRecommend

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.

Simon Rattle

NaturePeopleForestPowerfulRules

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

Juice Newton

SayingFeelAttentionCountryRadio

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Dmitry Medvedev

MentorDegreePreachSomethingAny

If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone.

Chen Guangbiao

RiverYouEveryoneShareShould

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

Christina Ricci

FearPeopleStoryYouLessonMoral

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

Ciaran Hinds

AgePeopleYouLoseGetClose

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

Antonio Banderas

TalentYouSometimesMoviesWorking

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