Beverly Cleary Quotes
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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People trash talk me.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.
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When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
