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Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 23, 1961

Topics

Teen World Book Help I Can Why

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

Writing Gift Think You Acting Way

Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll cut you down. I like that Perez is proud of who he is and doesn't care what anybody thinks.

Me Proud Care Friends You Down

When I was working with Reebok, Paul Fineman sent me to see David Stern to try to explain to him, basically, the tanning of America: That all rappers wanted to be basketball players and basketball players wanted to be rappers.

Me Basketball America Try Him See

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Experience Mind Thanks Superior Than

I have a routine I go through on the days that I work, and I don't want to divert from that.

Work Routine Go Want Through Days

We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia.

Memories Time Past Rebel Nostalgia

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.

Father Music World Think Artists

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Joseph de Maistre

Vision Man Results Poor Everything

My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive.

Good Ride School Me Sister Think

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

World You Know Real Point Happening

In pro wrestling, it's fake. People always get offended by that word. 'No, we like to say it's pre-determined.' For whatever reason, people get angry at 'fake'; 'pre-determined' eases the blow? It's fake. At the end of the day, it doesn't really mean anything.

Day Angry People End Fake Say

I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.

Tea Me Gun Human Human Being Expect

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