Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
Abel Korzeniowski -
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Mae West -
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
Salman Rushdie -
Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
Tamsin Greig -
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
J. Cole -
Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
Gardner Dozois -
As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
Maeve Binchy -
Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
Federica Mogherini -
How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. Salinger -
I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
Patrick Lencioni -
I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
Canelo Alvarez -
Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
Flip Wilson -
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon -
Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Barbara Sher -
As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
Sam Brownback
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
Acker Bilk -
I don't feel famous.
Uma Thurman -
I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.
Jameela Jamil -
Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went to Grandma and Grandad's caravan near Aberfoyle.
Kelly Macdonald -
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
Lois Wyse -
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
Beverly Cleary