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Rebecca Stead Quotes

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Learning Yourself Thoughts World You

My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.

Family Father Mother Courage Fight

A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that.

Melvin Van Peebles

Fly Know He Unsound

I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.

Day Little Girls Generation Every Day

The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.

Tristram Stuart

Business Food Simple Principles Up

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

Me Say Possible Try Question Going

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

Know Kinky Vampires

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Done Say More Him Experiment Asking

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

You Known Despise Truly

Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects, I am an embarrassingly analog guy. I am not on Facebook. I write whole books on yellow legal pads. I do not own a cell phone.

Time Best I Am Yellow Me Cell Phone

I've had to step up when I was Al Gore's campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.

Step Washington Manager Changes Up

I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

Chiaki Kuriyama

Women Be Strong Fight Think Thought

It will be amazing to collaborate with my dad. It will be special.

Amazing Special Will Dad Collaborate

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