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Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes

Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 11, 1927 - October 7, 2014

Topics

Children Experience Appreciation Me

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Time Art Pictures First Time See

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Envy Personal Emotion Glamour Social

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

Steven Spielberg

Day Sun Back Want One Day China

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

Life Father Think Stand Weird You

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

Martin O'Malley

Brave Make It Happen Impossible Dream

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Government Big Skepticism Distinguish

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

Up Academic Being Like Businessman

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Change Time Know Old Same Reflect

I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Myself Nothing Working Ever Actually

Sickle cell was my life before hip-hop. I ain't really have no life - that was it.

Life My Life Hip-Hop Before Really

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

Good You More Top Always Years

We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us.

Time Busy Appreciate Take Us Stuff

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