Walter Dean Myers Quotes

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014

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Whenever we're all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There's a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it's all about winning, and it's all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.

Jimmy Graham

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There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

Joe Kennedy III

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I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Siri Hustvedt

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Just because I beat David Haye doesn't make me a great fighter. I'm still the same fighter that I was.

Tony Bellew

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I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

Rufus Wainwright

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Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

Luke Bryan

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I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

Josh Fox

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I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

Jonny Lang

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The same song on a different day was a different song.

Bob Weir

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

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My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot, and then moving on to writing full prose on the tiny QWERTY keyboard of my iPaq smartphone. I got so fast that I was averaging 400 words during the 35 minutes or so I spent on the subway each way, or 800 words round trip.

Peter V. Brett

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'Carol' takes place at a time the country was crawling out of the shadows of the war years, feeling the new vulnerabilities of the Cold War and conflicts within the union.

Todd Haynes

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