Beverly Cleary Quotes
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
Quotes to Explore
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
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To go back means defeat.
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I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
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We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.
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I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
