Susan Campbell Bartoletti Quotes

For 'The Journal of Finn Reardon,' I traveled to New York City and walked the streets where Finn and his friends would have lived, worked, and played. I visited the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street and toured an actual flat in which families like Finn's might have lived.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1958

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Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Jimmy Dean

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A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.

Joe Lonsdale

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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johan Huizinga

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Judd Apatow, together with me and Lena, we're all the showrunners of 'Girls.'

Jennifer Konner

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Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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I like to make bombueti, which is basically the South African national dish. It's basically a South African curry shepherd's pie kind of thing.

St. Lucia

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What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.

Ruth Reichl

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Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.

Miguel Zenon

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It's OK to not have all the answers, and in fact, the more extraordinary people you are able to surround yourself with, the better you will become.

Mindy Grossman

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I've been fortunate, but I'm also not very precious about making sure I'm the star of a film.

Jason Bateman

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I think Twitter is an incredible platform. I want to see it succeed.

DeRay Mckesson

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I started hearing people say, 'There's a blog about your hair, and there are all of these Tumblr accounts.' I'm like, 'What's Tumblr?' I'm pretty mystified by it, because I look around, and a lot of people have great hair.

Connie Britton

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