Beverly Cleary Quotes
I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I still have a young attitude.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.
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My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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Winning the World Series, winning the MVP, you feel like you have everything.
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I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
