Tamora Pierce Quotes

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

Tamora Pierce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 13, 1953

Topics

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Making the Hall of Fame has long been considered the top individual honor that one can achieve in any sport, but for me, I feel it is a culmination of all the input and effort afforded me from so many other people over the years that put me in this position today.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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I play a certain style. I'm not willing to compromise that part of me.

Megan Rapinoe

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Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don't have a true Entrepreneurial Perspective. They have a Technician's Perspective.

Michael Gerber

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Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There's a notion that if you think positively enough, you can make anything happen by using the power of your mind. All the positive thinking in the world won't deliver good fortune or prevent tragedy from striking.

Amy Morin

PositiveGoodPowerMindWorldYou

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

Sophocles

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I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

Stieg Larsson

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This fan thing doesn't really have any effect on my career goals. You know, I'll still be training fighters and haven't made any career plans yet. Just like I hadn't made any career plans before I fought Maccarinelli. I'll see how it goes, see how I feel. I always listen to my body.

Roy Jones Jr.

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Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Constantin Brancusi

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There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

Aubrie Sellers

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Life drew me and I followed it.

Alfred Rosenberg

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Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

Richard Perle

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Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

Martin McGuinness

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