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Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Children World Literature Young

I'm not a phony-friendly guy and I'm usually very quiet and not a big laugher, so some people might take that for rudeness and being mean. If anyone ever got that impression, I apologize. I love all my fans and really appreciate all their support!

Jesse McCartney

Love Support People Appreciate Quiet

Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.

Good Business Service Best Training

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

Truth Truth Is Country Go Drink

I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised.

Life Food Best Government Waiting

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

Life More Write Economy Always Line

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

Learning Man Me Never Who Learned

The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.

Environment Ownership Over Big Where

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Mickey Spillane

Good Knowledge Baseball Voice Better

'Bionic Woman' changed direction too much from episode to episode, which I think is why it lost momentum.

Woman Direction Think Momentum Lost

People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.

Romantic People Comedy Someone You

My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.

Josephine de La Baume

Music Romantic Brother More Corner

People only see you on TV and riding around like stars, but they don't see behind the scenes how much time you have to put in working out. The lifting, the eating habits, trying to change all that so you can be that guy on TV, to be a baller, that's what people don't understand.

Chauncey Billups

Change Stars Time People Eating You

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