Beverly Cleary Quotes
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
Quotes to Explore
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Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
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If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
