Beverly Cleary Quotes
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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The Barack who was so successful in Illinois in a Republican-controlled legislative situation for most of his time and who was a very outspoken progressive voice, that's not the man who we ended up having as president.
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Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs are not dismissive of civil liberties. The challenge is getting the details right, and that's not simple.
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I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.
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When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.
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It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.
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We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
