Rebecca Stead Quotes

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

Rebecca Stead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeIdentityWorldThinkingYou

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

Joan Caulfield

BeautifulMenWomanValuePeople

I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.

Andrew Benintendi

FocusControlI CanTryHardWell

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world - including America - was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

Robert Kiyosaki

WorldAmericaMoreThanIncluding

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Maura Tierney

LifeJusticeAlwaysUnfortunately

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

Anna Paquin

HateDayEvery DayCountryCrime

Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.

Ann Leckie

YouWriteThroughUsedPaceJust

What we want to do is call attention to the fact that when workers and business work together, when you create a stakeholder model of corporate governance, where you understand that you can do well by your workers, you can do well by your shareholders and you can do well by your customers, that's how we create a virtuous cycle.

Tom Perez

WorkBusinessTogetherAttentionYou

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

Ronnie Wood

WordsWaitingStartThinkNiceOut

Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an athlete's brain may be at its most vulnerable.

Mary Pilon

MomentBrainPerformanceCareerLine

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

Jonas Mekas

NatureMomentFocusPresentCamera

There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways.

Sydney Pollack

RulesRomanceNumberWaysPlayed

I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor Street in Toronto and saying, 'I'll never take money for my writing!' I had such idealism about this idea of trading your soul for money.

Sheila Heti

FriendMoneySoulMemoryWriting

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Rebecca Stead