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Charles J. Shields Quotes

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Charles J. Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1951

Topics

Late Young Write Left Teaching

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

Support Cut Off Most Elements

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.

Happy Parents Be Happy Straight

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

Frustration Result Bad Down Suffer

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

Life Work Job Trying You Personal

I think it can be very safe to go to O'Hare and Wrigley and Sox park and Soldier Field, but you have to deal with some reality. Just because a threat is not specific and verifiable doesn't mean nearly what it used to mean, in terms of you being able to sleep well at night.

Sleep Night Think Reality You Go

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

Racism Me Person Up Set Built

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Life Funny People Disappointment Me

You can meet me - and I won't disappoint. That's how I am.

Diamond Dallas Page

I Am Me You Meet How Disappoint

Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

Me Enjoy Something Traveling

I try not to do it in a way that is hurtful, but I always tell him the truth, and he tells me the same thing. I trust him the most, and I know he trusts me the most.

Truth Trust Me Know Way Try

I do think the Tea Party position will prevail, and I am often asked: 'What has the Tea Party done and is it even still alive?' People think because there have been no demonstrations with the 'Don't Tread on Me' flag it's gone, but it hasn't.

Richard Mourdock

I Am Tea People Me Think Party

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Truth Truth Is Compliment Way Seen

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