Brian P. Cleary Quotes

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

Brian P. Cleary

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 1, 1959

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My father worked in Chrysler's drafting department and used to bring home tracing paper, No. 2 pencils, and masking tape from the office. With these, I used to trace off drawings from the 'Superman' and 'Batman' comics and put them up on my bedroom walls.

Jim Starlin

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I'm of the minority opinion that presidents should be given more power for less time.

Steven Soderbergh

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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Simon Armitage

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George Blagden is a great actor.

Travis Fimmel

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From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Roman Jakobson

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A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.

Lou Costello

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The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.' Or, 'Let's go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.' It'd be ridiculous.

Peter Guber

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Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place.

Pete Hoekstra

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As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it off.

Ricky Whittle

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I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

Rene Russo

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I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.

Kerry Greenwood

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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

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