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Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

~Eliot Engel

Topics: Adult Any Best Cell Cells Develop Diseases Embryonic Induced May Opportunity Provide Scientists Serious Since Stated Stem Stem Cells Treatments Type Unique Unlike

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Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: About Act Adult Always Any Argument Best Classification Exist Fight Freedom Genre High Inherent Itself Low Only Read Readers Reading See Should Urge Whether Young Young Adult I Can

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With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Adult Age Book Come Coming Coming Of Age Consensus Crop Exceptions Few Industry Interested Novel Primarily Protagonist Publishing Questions Then Up Worldview Young Young Adult

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Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Abstraction Adult After Book Calling Discarded Get Help Important Only Reader Right Should Useless Young Young Adult

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In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

~Eliot Spitzer

Topics: Adult America Exclusive Growing Inclusive Melting Melting Pot Minorities Politics Pot Rapidly Single Smart Voting Whether Women Young Young Adults

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I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.

~Elisabeth Moss

Topics: Actress Adult Any Becoming Been Crossing Find Inspire Long Me Over Problems Stick Things Think I Think

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People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.

~Elisabeth Shue

Topics: About Adult Away Characters Complicated Got How Love Made Movies Only Only Time People Some Talk Those Time Too

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The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I'm drawn to puzzly, complicated plots.

~Elise Broach

Topics: Adult Appeal Because Complicated Course Drawn Drew Fiction Funny Funny Thing Genre Kid Mysteries Nancy Never Plots Read Real Thing Think Though Write Writer I Think I Write

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I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

~Elizabeth Gillies

Topics: Adult Because Being Love Responsibilities Teen You I Love

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I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

~Elizabeth Olsen

Topics: Adult Love Never Novel Read Sure Though Would Young Young Adult

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