Adora Svitak Quotes

We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

Adora Svitak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1997

Topics

Social MediaSchoolMediaConnection

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.

Jennifer Doudna

PeopleMeLovedKindPrettyNerdy

In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

John Eisenhower

FamilyFatherMeFightingYoung

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

Amitava Kumar

ChallengePeopleMeDoingStrange

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

Roxane Gay

CuriousWritingReadingStopOver

We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than peace for the Egyptian people. We're not going to get involved in how Egypt, how the Egyptians should run themselves. That's an internal Egyptian affair.

Michael Oren

GreatPeacePeopleSeeingSecurity

I feel blessed to keep my adventurous passion at peak while doing a daily soap.

Divyanka Tripathi

DailyPassionBlessedFeelDoing

I actually had a lot of very smart peers.

Priscilla Chan

SmartPeersVeryLotActuallyHad

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.

Peter Shaffer

GreatSunMeMovingSeeingLook

It's wonderful to be in love. And it's definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it's OK if you don't find him and you're 24. You can find it someday.

Leighton Meester

LifeLoveExperienceYouSexFind

Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But there are universal truths about what it means to be a human being. All the other stuff is like applique. Learning that was interesting to me and probably useful for becoming an actor.

Julianne Moore

LearningMeBehaviorInteresting

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

FailureOpportunityTimeIntelligence

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's 'Blue Velvet.'

Greg Mottola

HeartPetBlueGoldFeelYou

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