Beverly Cleary Quotes
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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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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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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Quare religio pedibus subiecta vicissimopteritur, nos exaequat victoria caelo.
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The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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The worst thing for me is to not taste what I'm eating, to not know what I'm eating. It upsets me to no avail.
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The factory workers say that it’s impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, 'Where did you get the watch?'
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
