Beverly Cleary Quotes
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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It's those damn critics again.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I was a tomboy.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
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I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it.
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I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
