Beverly Cleary Quotes
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.Beverly Cleary
Quotes to Explore
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
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.
Natalie Dormer -
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
Karen Thompson Walker -
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian -
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West -
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.
Eddie Murphy
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I am surrounded by great people.
Rafael dos Anjos -
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.
Adam Braun -
I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
Carl Icahn -
I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
Brown Campbell -
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.
Wangari Maathai -
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.
Eckhart Tolle
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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.
Rachel Kushner -
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.
Ferran Adria -
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.
Danica McKellar -
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie -
But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
Kate Fleetwood -
I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
Rachael Harris
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You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there.
Prince Harry -
I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.
Ben Schott -
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw -
If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.
Jeffrey Skoll -
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed -
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary