David A. Adler Quotes

I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.

David A. Adler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 10, 1947

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And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

John Frankenheimer

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It's just easy to be a mother and an actress in the same time: you just have to have a good organization, and everything is just fine.

Melanie Thierry

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I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

Maurizio Sarri

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I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

Anna Deavere Smith

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I get a lot of mail from boys in detention centers, including one from a center where they only had a few copies of my novel. They had a deal with each other that they'd read a couple of chapters and then slide it under the door to the next guy. I think that's very cool.

Simone Elkeles

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If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

Tucker Carlson

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I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

Mick Mulvaney

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I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Milos Forman

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The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.

Luis Gutierrez

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There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.

Lolo Jones

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Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

Jools Holland

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Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?

Dorothea Dix

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