Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding
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Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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Ideas that spread win.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
