Rebecca Stead Quotes

I try to remember what it was like to be a kid in New York. I lived in different parts of my childhood in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, where 'When You Reach Me' is set, and also in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.

Rebecca Stead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1968

Topics

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You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

John Keats

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I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.

Amy Gerstler

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Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

Tony Blair

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A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it.

Roustam Tariko

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Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

Louis Stokes

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I love my fans, I love my music - I have no reason to retire.

LL Cool J

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Sometimes people honestly don't realize the magnitude of their words and have no idea that boundaries have been crossed.

Judy Smith

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I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck.

Judy Sheindlin

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If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

Juan Antonio Bayona

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I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.

Jose Andres

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I just did something on a show on UPN called 'Girlfriends' that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Christopher Darden

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We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.

Bruce Cockburn

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