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Justine Larbalestier Quotes

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

Justine Larbalestier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: September 23, 1967

Topics

Time My Own Fairy Up Fiction Own

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Art Fire Soul Must Clinical Works

I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.

Love Me Class Out Used Because

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

Angela Duckworth

Age American Data Grit Go Hand

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.

John Shelton Reed

Smart People Think Problem Kind

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Family Children Society Picture Our

Honestly, I do not care about my age.

Age Care About Honestly

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

Louise Slaughter

Moving Forward Research Moving World

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Patience Blessings Real See Shape

I have been dyeing my hair since I was, like, 2.

Hair Been Like Since

I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don't.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Curious Think Always Bring Been Our

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Work Past Me Focused Artists Who

Everyone wants to be sexy.

Sexy Everyone Wants

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