Beverly Cleary Quotes
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Quotes to Explore
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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I'm a fan of people getting together.
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In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don't have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
