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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The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.
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When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
