Deborah Ellis Quotes

If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.

Deborah Ellis

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MorningBestPeopleWritingMeet

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.

Joe Namath

PracticeEnjoyNever

It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

Jeremy Irons

LearningTrustFriendsYouGoNice

I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a video game that people around the globe can enjoy and relate to, I can't draw things deeply rooted in the local culture that I'm not familiar with. That's why we are not doing games about football or samurai.

Jenova Chen

CultureFootballPeopleGameDoing

I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.

Jens Lekman

FunnyWritingStartDignityFirst

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

John Kasich

HistoryBudgetPlanDownWashington

If you go to my shows, 90 percent of my fans are females between the ages of eleven and eighteen. People look at me like a living mannequin; all of these girls want pink hair. They want the cool makeup and contact lenses and cool clothes.

Jeffree Star

PeopleMeCoolHairMakeupPink

I am an aging Girl Scout.

Amy Sedaris

GirlAgingI AmScoutAm

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

Sloane Crosley

FunnyFriendMindMeGivingAdmire

When I was eight or nine, I came to London for the day from Swindon and went to The National Gallery. I remember standing in Trafalgar Square with my best friend Tim, who was covered in pigeons because I put bird seed on his head.

Tom Ellis

FriendBirdBestDayBest Friend

What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

Roy H. Williams

WeekYouResultsNewThreeWill

Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture, so I think we're actually utilizing comic book heroes in a much more in-depth way than before. They have such potential, and I think we're maximizing the potential.

Mike Colter

CultureBookThinkPotentialWay

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

Michael Sheen

StruggleGetting OlderAcceptanceOut

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