Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes

Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.

Jimmy Smits

GreatPeopleMeLawyerYouPlay

I think my biggest appeal for fans is probably the fact that I'm honest. I'm up front about who I am. I'm a little naughty. I have a naughty side and everybody knows that. But I know when to use that and when not to.

John Barrowman

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If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

Jennifer Egan

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One of the things that always disappointed me as a kid, growing up, was when you could tell the singer had a fancy for something different and turned the band into something else.

Andy Biersack

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I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.

Angela Ahrendts

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Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

John Ratzenberger

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You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

Steve Zahn

WorkPeopleSearchYouPlayChanges

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

Tom Brokaw

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The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

Rush Limbaugh

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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Livy

HistoryEyesAboveGloriousActions

I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.

Courteney Cox

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Any underrepresented audience loves to see themselves on TV, but what's more important is that we're writing about universal themes - good versus evil, can you change yourself? These themes resonate for everyone.

Courtney A. Kemp

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