Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.
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I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.
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Most of our customers want something glamorous. They want to be looked at, but not for the wrong reasons.
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My auntie Anne took me to 'Phantom of the Opera' in London. I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
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I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.
