Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 12, 1963

Topics

BookPictureBackGoYoungMiddle

Fabulous is familiarity.

Jillionaire

FabulousFamiliarity

There's no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If I was a fan, I wouldn't want to hear that on a Black Veil Brides record. It was important for me and for the integrity of the band not to tarnish it.

Andy Biersack

IntegrityMusicMeBlackPlaceWant

My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.

Andrei Codrescu

MotherFreedomHardHeadWestGoing

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

Jeff Bridges

DoneMoviesGoingMaybeAbout

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

Jean Kerr

BetterNobodyThingsThanDomestic

Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

Stephen Chbosky

LifeMusicIdentityMeMy LifeFind

I've done movies where they didn't have enough money to have trailers.

Steve Zahn

MoneyEnoughDoneMoviesWhere

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.

Michael Morpurgo

LoveGreatJobParentsReadingYou

There's Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Kenya, and then they switched to Qatar and Bahrain and other countries. Yes, I do have a problem with that.

Mo Farah

ProblemYearTwoYearsYesLast

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

Louise Leakey

TechnologyTodayGreatBackFind

My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge.

Joshua Malina

GoodSmartHappyParentsSharpHe

If there's one thing that I've learned from both Spike Lee and Tarantino, it's that you can wear your influences on your sleeve but at the same time invoke new energy and new flavor.

Cheo Hodari Coker

TimeEnergyYouNewSameWear

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