Tansy Rayner Roberts Quotes

Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

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You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

Joanna Lumley

BeginningPeopleWritingWorldThink

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs

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I certainly don't feel any more super than any of the other people I knew in my working life... Quite the reverse. In fact, guilt is my middle name, and I think anybody who does do that thing with work and children and everything knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Jennifer Rowe

LifeWorkChildrenPeopleThink

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

John Fiske

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Either the law exists, or it does not.

Andre Norton

LawEitherDoesExists

The way I look at it, if you're the best in the world, you fight the best in the world anywhere, anytime.

Max Holloway

BestFightWorldYouLookWay

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

Matt Smith

FamilyHistoryLevelPlayedDad

If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.

Michael Che

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Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Ron Wyden

FamilyFreedomHealthBestDrive

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

Rokia Traore

RightRhythmWithoutMelodyHardly

I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.

Martine Syms

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As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

Jason Isbell

WorkThinkYouDoneNeverAnything

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