Beverly Cleary Quotes
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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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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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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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
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Too big to cry too young to laugh.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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I've got a great wife, a great life.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
