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.
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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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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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.
