Walter Dean Myers Quotes

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeChildReadingYouWantGoing

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

Jessie Matthews

PerfectionMindYouStriveAlways

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

John Cameron

WorkMedicalPhysicsNormalCancer

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Jennifer O'Neill

WomenLightKnowOldDaysOld Days

All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.

John Leguizamo

MaskWayCamouflageArtistsSmarter

Music is like a medicine.

Stromae

MusicMedicineLike

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.

Rob Manuel

AgeDoorLibraryProblemYesBring

I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer.

Rory Kinnear

LiveDoingTryingYearGymPlay

Cops can deprive people of their freedom. They are sworn to serve and protect. They work for us and they belong to, basically, a service industry, laboring in conditions that are sometimes threatening, often dangerous yet interesting.

Mike Barnicle

WorkFreedomServicePeopleProtect

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Michel de Montaigne

ManHumanHuman ConditionWhole

Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

Anthony Foxx

CarDeathChildLeavingHotBecause

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

Scott Walker

PowerPeopleMeVoiceGivingHands

Adults under threat feel like children.

Martha Beck

ChildrenFeelThreatLike

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