Tamora Pierce Quotes

Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Tamora Pierce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

Joe Paterno

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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Jim Bishop

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People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.

Joan Jett

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I was broke into my forties.

Jen Sincero

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After being married, hearing 'You're hot!' from a total stranger means a hundred times more than hearing it from your husband.

Andrea Savage

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Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Andrew Weil

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Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.

Stephen Stills

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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Lord Byron

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I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.

Jon Favreau

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I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.

Chris Gardner

MotherDreamsPowerResponsibility

There are companies trying to build business within Saudi Arabia, and what they find is that if they try to bring on locals and teach them how to become senior executives, they just don't show up to work. They are not predictable as to when they'll come in and how much of their hearts are into that opportunity.

Clayton M. Christensen

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Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable.

Brett Kavanaugh

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