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Walter Dean Myers Quotes

I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Tough Face Thinking Someone

When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.

Life Children Job Yourself Advice

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

Future Best World Believe American

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

Limits My Own Taste Own Make Drawn

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

You Professional Become Something

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

Robin Wasserman

Writing Building Down Way Without

I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let's hope it's the start of an avalanche.

Home Hope I Am World Start America

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

Admit Important Thirty Difficulties

I feel good about my first professional fight. I was ready for it, and it was a good win for me.

Good Fight Me Win Feel Good Feel

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I Am People Bend Backwards Over Am

When the ball isn't in my hands, I'm already scanning for where the next pass is going.

Hands Next Ball Where Pass Going

Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully.

Opportunity Great Me Challenges See

With 'Battlestar Galactica,' we had such resistance from the fan base to changing it. The upshot was, we ultimately won them over.

Resistance Over Changing Fan Won

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