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Walter Dean Myers Quotes

I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

School People You Know Say Teach

I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

John Lewis

Believe Human Need Us Human Beings

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

John Masefield

Community Man Poetry Become Printing

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Robert Smithson

Questions Content Seem Inadequate

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Max Beerbohm

Good Better Matter Nonsense Things

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

Robert Guillaume

Great Racism Me Thought Impact Said

Debenhams has a strong track record for developing exclusive designer brands.

Matthew Williamson

Strong Track Exclusive Designer

I go back and think of President Kennedy, who had a military service background, but he comes into the presidency, and he's faced with a decision on the Bay of Pigs, with the C.I.A. and the military giving him data, and it turns out very badly.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Service Decision Think Giving Data

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

Mary Badham

Good Time Having A Good Time Playing

Sometimes I take this women's exercise class called Core Fusion at a place called Exhale. I shouldn't say it's a women's class. There's maybe two men.

Mike Birbiglia

Women Men Exercise Place Sometimes

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

Mitch Kapor

Good Think Want A Good Thing Thing

I just try to get the most out of every day and be prepared for anything.

Jon Gruden

Day Every Day Be Prepared Try Out

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

Dizzy Dean

Good Mind Me Strong Body Right