Caroline Leavitt Quotes

While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you.

Caroline Leavitt

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I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

Jessica Sanchez

SpeakFilipinoSpanishBothSung

It's important for Asian American kids to see themselves in stories and to feel seen. They need to know that their stories are universal, too, that they, too, can fall in love in a teen movie. They don't have to be the sidekick; they can be the hero.

Jenny Han

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I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

John Oliver

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I've been very, very fortunate. I don't need to work another day in my life. I have all the security I need.

Stan Van Gundy

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You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.

Roisin Murphy

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Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Julia Child

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I grew up with a sister and a younger brother in a house where every evening was spent performing a dance routine in front of our parents with my sister.

Disha Patani

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Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.

Christian de Duve

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It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when '91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.

Brian Baumgartner

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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

Alfred Kazin

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My husband is one of those guys who just loves sandwiches - breakfast, lunch, or dinner!

Tiffani Thiessen

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I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

Tobias Hill

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