Randi Weingarten
Related As a Scout, I learned how to set goals and achieve them. Being a Scout also taught me leadership at ... STEVE FOSSETT teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life. STEPHAN JENKINS AERIN LAUDER As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant... VINCENT BUGLIOSI JOHN CORNFORTH A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire. MALORIE BLACKMAN KATE KLISE ANNA QUINDLEN When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even... IAN SCHRAGER MARLO THOMAS IVANKA TRUMP I have 'The Economist' and the 'New Scientist' on my bedside table - and 'GQ,... ETHAN PECK CHARLES STROSS A deer hunter flipped the switch for me. He dropped two books on my desk 'Diet for a New America' b... BRENDA DAVIS A deer hunter flipped the switch for me. He dropped two books on my desk 'Diet for a New America'... BRENDA DAVIS It's an honor, a blessing. I feel like I work hard and my teammates look up to me. They look at me a... ANTOINE CALDWELL ERIK LARSON MAYA ANGELOU ISABEL ALLENDE LINDA GRANT C.S. LEWIS In my bedroom, I have my yoga mat and the puppets I've made over the years, and because I'm ... LUCAS HEDGES JOSEPH J. ELLIS BARRY MCGEE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ELIZABETH EDWARDS My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dr... JEFF SAMPSON My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on ... DAVID RUDISHA It's great to know that I have people in Peoria that embrace me and support me throughout my career. MATT SAVOIE MITCH ALBOM Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forc... LYNNE TRUSS One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in ... DIANE WAKOSKI JENNIFER EGAN ADRIENNE MAYOR On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company! AVIJEET DAS I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every ti... JEANNE RYAN JEFFREY EUGENIDES JOHN HICKENLOOPER Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inn... KAILASH KHER I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and profes... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ LAURA DERN KARIN SLAUGHTER JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ... MARY ROACH ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING My wife made me get a cellphone, which I keep in my briefcase. I've never used it. ALAN C. GREENBERG My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't ... ANNE FADIMAN ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY CORNELIA FUNKE My books are my brain and my heart made visible. MERILYN SIMONDS My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafti... JUDE DEVERAUX CHARLES DICKENS I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies." DAKOTA FANNING ORHAN PAMUK BRIGITTE BARDOT Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like... EAMONN WALKER WILLIAM HAZLITT CORNELIA FUNKE MALALA YOUSAFZAI Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. NAWAL EL SAADAWI SCOTT DOUGLAS My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books... ALEJANDRO AMENABAR ANATOLE FRANCE SARAH MACLEAN The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago... PETER ABRAHAMS I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually d... EVE BUNTING DEYTH BANGER NANCY GARDEN VIDYA BALAN Throughout the years, whenever darkness has touched my life, it has been a strong faith in God and a... DICK MURGATROYD ANATOLE FRANCE ANATOLE FRANCE Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own b... ANN RULE Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books. TASLIMA NASRIN I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mi... MARY GORDON LEMONY SNICKET MICHELLE OBAMA Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sash... JAMES W. LOEWEN My biggest fear is that no one will bid on my envelope, ... So have pity on me and bid on it. CHERYL HINES JULIAN BARNES If you would like to know more about me look to the pages of my books and you'll find me in between ... JIM CHERRY As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores... GAIL CARRIGER CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI CARRIE UNDERWOOD My gut is telling me to get going on a career. I didn't feel I'd have enough time to campaign effect... DANIEL PARRISH I have the letter laminated and sitting on my desk at home. GREG MCELROY I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies. DAKOTA FANNING ELIZABETH GILBERT My outing at Asian Tour Qualifying School spurred me on to success today and I am very happy to have... CHRIS RODGERS AUGUST WILSON My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God... J.D. GREEAR My soulmate came into my life when I needed somebody to lean on to in a stressful time of grief, and... TOMMY POLO I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work... TAMMY BLANCHARD And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; / That ye may eat and drink a... BIBLE DOUG LIMAN BEN CARSON My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my ... MAE WHITMAN MICHELLE WILLIAMS GAIL COLLINS
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I've always loved flowers, as a little girl I'd collect flower objects and little flower boo... 
Throughout my scientific career, my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental sk... 
Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I cou... 
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. 
I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on m... 
Usually, if I can't fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with ... 
My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple... 
My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. 
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors cl... 
In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in m... 
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffe... 
I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an... 
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the ... 
I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my s... 
I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and
ill-thought-on of you; gone between ... 
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my fr... 
I had also developed my own culture. Work. 
some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling sho... 
I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad ju... 
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some k... 
My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms. 
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She'... 
Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and ... 
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a dra... 
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name;... 
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exal... 
I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages.
And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the gl... 
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those mo... 
Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we fe... 
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinki... 
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms... 
I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to ... 
The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't ev... 
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... 
In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even gr... 
...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what ... 
It felt a little as if we'd found a script that had been written just for us, and we were reading th... 
Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting through... 
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... 
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except p... 
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. ... 
Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar. 
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. 
I was hoping for new female vocalist and that's all I was really hanging my hopes on. This is a monu... 
The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work ... 
Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I ... 
Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, ... 
God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those... 
I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than... 
You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off... 
Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy wi... 
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a str... 
There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come wit... 