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"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."
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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."
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"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."
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Personal Development
"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."
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Personal Development
"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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Personal Development
"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."
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Personal Development
"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
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Personal Development
"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."
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Personal Development
"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me."
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Personal Development
"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."
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Personal Development
"So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another."
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"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer."
Education
"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
Motivational
"What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older."
Now
"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."
Home
"The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War."
War
"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."
Life
"I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice."
Self
"First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated."
Woman
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
Desire
"But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art."
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