Jay Asher Quotes

I was in Las Vegas, and there was a exhibit of King Tut's tomb, and it was an audio tour. At the very end of that, I just thought it would be a really cool structure for a novel, but I just didn't have a story to go along with it.

Jay Asher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 30, 1975

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You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

Joe Mantegna

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Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

Jerry Costello

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It's very different working with all adults. I have a swear jar so that, if they have a potty mouth, I make them pay. That's what it's like being on set with adults.

Joey King

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The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.

Joel Fuhrman

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People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

Stanley Tucci

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Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safety net protections like workers' compensation and unemployment insurance.

Tom Perez

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We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

Tom Daschle

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At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

Roy Harper

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On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Jean Anouilh

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No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.

Anna Sui

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When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Alfred Kazin

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