Sabaa Tahir Quotes

Young readers can sense when you're not addressing what's actually going on.

Sabaa Tahir

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YouYoungGoingSenseReaders

Music brings unity.

Trombone Shorty

MusicUnityBrings

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Rory Bremner

EducationChildhoodSchoolPublic

Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.

Mary Pilon

WomenGreatFinanceComputersBack

It takes a great deal of courage to give me a public shout out, that's for sure.

Mike Cernovich

CourageGreatMeOutGive MeSure

Some of the best bad guys in movies are funny and charming.

Michael Pena

FunnyBestBadMoviesCharmingSome

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

Michael Landon

LifeSuccessGoodHappinessEnough

At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.

Christopher Buckley

SchoolFeelingNeedSeniorUpManly

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

Chris Squire

PeopleDoneLittleBassFurtherFew

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

LoveWomenTimeFocusMenWorld

While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

LeaderFutureBrokenPromisesHavana

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

Pharrell Williams

PeopleLookingFeelYouKnowUp

Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the material.

Sean Bean

QualityManKindWriteEpicQuite

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