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Matt de la Pena has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back…
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The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this…
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I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this…
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I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like,…
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When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.…
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But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right…
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People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not…
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But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment door. And…
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Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story…
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When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as…
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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace…
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I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had…
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have…
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I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with…
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And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been…
— Yann Martel
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I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must…
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Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we…
— Mark Batterson
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Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion…
— Wes Bentley
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I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as…
— Isabel Allende
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When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as…
— Matt de la Pena
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The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like... I make time to clean my house, to care for…
— Lori Foster
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