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Walter Dean Myers Quotes

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Knowledge Smart People Think Doing

Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.

Jen Lancaster

Think Become Conservative More Just

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

Jennifer Armintrout

Sad Time Grief Feel Person Belief

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

John Lurie

Experience Trying Early Late Years

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

John Shelby Spong

Church Christian Who Oh Primary

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

Amy Locane

Early Always Femininity Used Get

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

Tom Stoppard

Music Writing Process You Kind Head

Getting back to 100 per cent is one thing, but working at 100 per cent is something else entirely. And given one of my main goals has always been improving my skill set, to do that, I need to be working out at 100 per cent.

Robert Whittaker

Goals Back Skill Need Improving Out

I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.

Mike Lee

Power People Control Story You Tell

It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Think Us Cosmos Only Presumptuous

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

Dizzy Dean

Hate Statistics Know Never Head Got

If I had to return to Valencia, I would not rule that out.

David Silva

Out Return Rule Would Had

Some people might shy away from a character like Deathstroke because, you know, all of the blood-letting and the swordplay and violence and all that other stuff.

Christopher Priest

Character People Violence You Know