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Cynthia Voigt Quotes

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 25, 1942

Topics

Myself Poetry Book Write Anything

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

Confidence I Am People Me Trying Am

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

Power Peace Balance War Argument

The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it.

Funny School Think Fat Nothing Big

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Age More Succession Jerks Seldom

I want to be careful when I'm breaking down matches because I don't want to offend anybody or knock anybody's work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Work Time Me Someone Long You

People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

Truth People Proud Truth Is Career

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

Mother New York Fashion New Write

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

Book Judge Either

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.

Great Mind Performance Doing Playing

It takes skill to sing bad and dance bad, because there's a certain amount of unawareness that people have when they can't sing and they can't dance, so I have to say that it is a challenge!

Annaleigh Ashford

Challenge Dance People Bad Skill

Umm... my favourite Wizkid tune of all time would be 'Don't Dull' 'cos I recorded the track in, like, 5 minutes. The beat was ready, we went into the studio and freestyled, and it was ready. The song became really, really big, so I think 'Don't Dull' is still my favourite.

Time Song Think Ready Beat Big

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

Best Rural Democrats Urban Suburbs

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