"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."

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"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."

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"Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear."

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"No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

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"Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough."

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"And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard."

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"President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift."

Elton Gallegly, American Politician

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"I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun."

Corbin Bleu, American Actor

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"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."

Evelyn Waugh, English Author

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"Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention."

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"People hear that and say I'm being modest, but I am not a modest person, but I have to be truthful about what I'm doing and what I'm doing is channeling."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

People, Being

"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."

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"I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea."

Idea, School, Teachers

"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."

Books, Writers

"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."

Books,

"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."

Conversation, End, Writing

"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."

Kids, Learning

"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."

Enthusiasm, Trying, Vengeance

"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."

Expectation,

"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."

Day,

"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."

Kids, Problems, Want

"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."

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