O. R. Melling Quotes

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

O. R. Melling

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LifeChildrenChildhoodInfluence

I ski and grew up skiing.

Jeffrey Wright

SkiingUpGrewSki

I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

Meir Soloveichik

WorkPeopleWrongRightAlways

I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

Andy Murray

BelieveYouI BelieveBallGive

I made good grades in school.

Stephanie Beatriz

GoodSchoolGradesGood GradesMade

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

Simon Mainwaring

ResponsibilitySocietyActionRest

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

Michael Weatherly

MusicAgeWaterPastSchoolTeam

The secret to acting is don't act. Be you, with add-ons.

Michael Sheen

YouActingSecretAct

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Donald Byrd

MyselfPersonalDistractionsSeattle

The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.

Christopher Moore

FunnyWritingWishMoreReasonWere

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

Anne Dudley

YouThings HappenWantSoundTwo

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother's illness. She had Parkinson's disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time... All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn't want to get trapped.

Alice Munro

MotherTimeMeLongLong TimeWant

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.

Thomas Perry

StoryImportantLivingAwareness

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