Beverly Cleary Quotes
Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.
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A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
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The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"
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When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a bit woe-is-me. I'd like to think that I'm not one of those. I'm quite a happy person.
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Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.
