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Cassandra Clare Quotes

I had just moved to New York in September 2001, and immediately 9/11 happened, and of course it completely changed the city and everybody who lived there.

Cassandra Clare

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 27, 1973

Topics

New York City New Lived September

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Joan Armatrading

Great Time You Important Want Deal

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

John Edwards

Life People Champion My Life Want

That's the biggest thing I struggle with. We could never hope to represent every gay person in America. There will be people who will say, 'Well, my experience of being gay isn't like that,' to which I can only say, 'That's fine.'

Andrew Haigh

Hope Experience Struggle People Gay

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

Robert Plant

You Repetition Lost Singer Own Get

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

John Irving

Alone Imagination Being Alone Me Kid

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.

Matt Ridley

Future Past Me World Better Know

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

Ann Druyan

Life Passion Truth Great Joy People

Abbey Clancy is incredible. I saw a picture of her in a white suit recently, and she looked amazing. Victoria Beckham always looks classy, and I like Coleen Rooney's style too.

Amy Childs

Style Amazing Picture White Looks

My goal is to live to be 100.

Tommy Lasorda

Live Goal

While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.

Robin DiAngelo

Change Racism Color Better Diet

The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.

Molly Ivins

People Employees Powerful Down Poor

Doubts may happen. But if you surround yourself with like-minded people who believe in you and who you believe in, and you have faith, all will be well.

Luke James

Faith Yourself Surround Yourself You