Kevin Young Quotes

Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.

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I want to be a writer someday.

Andrea Barber

WantSomedayWriter

Inequality is partly a marker of success.

Angus Deaton

SuccessInequalityPartly

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

Stewart O'Nan

CharacterWritingWorldMaskWalking

Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

Tom Stoppard

HeroBecauseHeReedLou Reed

I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.

Mickey Sumner

ThinkShameKidTellActBecause

I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.

Michelle Forbes

AgeSayingTelevisionKnowUpUs

It was a mistake of mine to train like that, with friends, at home. It was a handicap I should not have given myself. In Croatia, we do not have big camps like in other countries, but I was not willing to go away to train.

Mirko Cro Cop

HomeMyselfMistakeFriendsTrain

I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

Louise L. Hay

LifeLoveFindAcceptEverything

I went to New York, I think at the end of 2010, and did a competition called IMTA. I didn't do that well in modeling and ended up winning male actor of the year, so a bunch of agencies wanted to sign me, and I ended up moving out to L.A. in 2011.

Joseph David-Jones

CompetitionNew YorkMeMovingThink

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.

Jon Meacham

LifeWorkGodDaySpaceWorld

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Dean Koontz

NameYearYouWantNeedOwn

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

Christina Hoff Sommers

GoodMenBe TrueSayTrueWhy

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