Cynthia Leitich Smith Quotes

I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark, every plot point is a decision. It's much more fun to play with something that already exists.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

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It's stressful when you run a company.

Jenova Chen

YouRunCompanyStressful

There's nothing in the world that I can't face.

Mawra Hocane

WorldFaceNothing

This kind of one-on-one connection of tweeting, I've really grown to get a kick out of.

Jeff Perry

ConnectionKindOutKickGetReally

The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process.

Steve Jurvetson

LearningControlRestDeepMindset

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Trent Reznor

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Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

Rob Sheffield

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People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated against employment, barred from public housing, and denied other public benefits.

Michelle Alexander

LifeHomePeopleFacePrisonLegal

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Michael Johnson

MeSmallThinkDownGoWant

Sometimes I feel that in religious content, religious drama, it's almost told like a tale, like an account of facts, and in 'A.D. The Bible Continues,' it's drama, it's real drama that we like to see on TV today, seeing the characters struggle and doubt and be completely in conflict with each other, kind of like 'House of Cards.'

Juan Pablo Di Pace

TodayStruggleConflictBibleFacts

I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.

Jason Moran

FutureFeelTraditionJazzLikeToo

I earned a Master's degree in Epidemiology from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2009.

Christine Blasey Ford

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Arthur Rubinstein

LifeLoveSickLove LifeEven

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