Aidan Chambers Quotes

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Aidan Chambers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 27, 1934

Topics

SayObviousAlmostMadeReaders

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

Jesse L. Martin

GodTableRentDancingStuntsCame

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

John Hawkes

ChallengeMeActorWayPrepareRole

There's this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there's this mysterious thing called 'socioeconomic status' that is immutably correlated with health. And it isn't.

Angus Deaton

HealthMysteriousStatusNarrative

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

Stanley Hauerwas

AgeHistoryTrustI AmEnoughJust

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

Monie Love

GreatSchoolTrueHardOutMiddle

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

Lois Greenfield

TimeEyePhotographyStopNakedSee

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley

LearningFutureLivePastPresent

You pay a price for everything in life.

Chris Evert

LifeYouPriceEverythingPay

I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.

Sean Bean

FootballThreeBeingBeenLeastToo

Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?

Sebastian Thrun

DeathPeopleDrivingYouKnowYoung

The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.

Scotty McCreery

LifeGreatFunMeRoadPlace

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Richard M. Nixon

ManPeopleThinkYouKnowNothing

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