Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
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Imagination needs to be fed.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
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The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!
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To use tragedy to sow division is the hallmark of a despot.
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The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
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The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.
