Jane Yolen Quotes

While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.

Jane Yolen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 11, 1939

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SchoolPoetryNew YorkHigh School

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

John Oates

LiveAppreciateYouWantInsideOut

Social media is one of the most under-rated business tools, in my opinion. It's an amazing cockpit for any CEO. I can narrate any number of stories how it has helped me to reach out to customers, dealers, protesting workers, and even security guards.

Anand Mahindra

BusinessSocial MediaAmazingMe

You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it.

Sophia Amoruso

SomeoneYouSeriouslyUpOwnAsking

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

Mike Birbiglia

FeelPassionateWatchingEveryone

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

Diego Luna

DayEvery DayWantMessageConsumers

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

Doris Lessing

LoveAwayIdeaWriterFallsCarried

I've always loved 'lived-in' sci-fi. We take it for granted now, but it was a revelation in the late '70s - '80s, when movies like 'Alien', 'Escape From New York', and even 'Star Wars' introduced us to the idea that the future could, in fact, look old.

Antony Johnston

FutureNew YorkLovedLookAlien

I've been truly blessed. I've been a fly on the wall of history. I've been just so many lucky places just by chance and serendipity, and obviously a huge portion of that serendipity had to do with my relationship with the real president, Ronald Reagan.

Arthur Laffer

RelationshipHistoryBlessedFly

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

Alicia Keys

LoveCrazyTryingFabulousShades

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

Wim Wenders

I AmAmericanTrueBoredDivision

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

William H. Macy

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You sort of have to become what you're wearing.

Pharrell Williams

YouBecomeWearingSort

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