Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1965

Topics

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Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

John Gerzema

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After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

Jen Lancaster

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I think I'll just become a full-time dad, at home, with my family.

Mauro Icardi

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There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.

Steve Burke

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When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

Shinya Yamanaka

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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Robert Burns

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Romain Gary

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Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

Roberto Cavalli

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I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of other television shows.

Lorne Michaels

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I love smart comedy.

Jason Alexander

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I spent a lot of time denying the idea that I could be gay or trans to myself. From the ages of 14 to 16, I was mostly convinced that I was just going through 'phases.' I ran away mentally, especially at night with access to the Internet and the labyrinth of anonymous communications.

Chelsea Manning

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Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Chris Van Hollen

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