Ally Condie Quotes

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

Ally Condie

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ChangeBeautyFuturePowerOwnUs

It might be that you never want to get married, or it might be that you really, really do. Either is fine. What's not fine is not to be honest about what you want.

Joanna Coles

YouWantNeverHonestGetFine

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

Jo Nesbo

AmericanFeelCrimeMoreI Feel

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

John Ortberg

HateSpiritualPeopleThinkingLong

I grew up on camera. I started at 16.

Mauro Ranallo

CameraUpStartedGrew

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere.

Andy Hertzfeld

CrazyAppleProductOrdinaryUsed

I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

Michael Ealy

LoveRespectFeelTryingNowActor

I find that when I'm under pressure, I work really well, but then you have those days where you sleep for four hours because you drive to a venue overnight and arrive there the next day, and you're cranky and not dealing with it very well.

St. Lucia

WorkDaySleepDrivePressureYou

Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest.

Tom Vilsack

TodaySmartWindEnergyStrategy

Baking has always been one of my many hobbies. After I uploaded my first baking tutorial video, I got a really positive response from the online community, and they started to demand more videos like that.

Rosanna Pansino

PositiveCommunityBakingHobbies

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

BuildingYouNewWonderfulCannot

Motion comics take the underlying physical book material and enhance or modify it slightly enough to make it unique and, we think, best-suited for a digital environment.

Diane Nelson

BookThinkEnvironmentEnoughUnique

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

Denise Mina

ChildrenFunWritingWorldHardTwo

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