Chris Crutcher Quotes

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Chris Crutcher

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Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.

John F. Kerry

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Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

Andrew Greeley

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I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't.

Melvyn Bragg

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I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

Sue Kelly

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I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.

Sonam Kapoor

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Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They have a natural authority in Shakespeare. They feel a right to do it. And once they honor the humanity of it, the rhythm of the verse comes with it.

Roger Rees

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Being the writer is merely control freak level two. You've got to get to control freak level one.

Luke Davies

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Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

Lisa Graff

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I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Jean Craighead George

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Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

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I want to be someone for young girls to look up to, for fathers to want their daughters to listen to me because I'm not rude, and I'm actually talking some sense.

Jorja Smith

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It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.

David Walliams

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