Natalie Babbitt Quotes
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I am healthy and happy.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I'm not graceful.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called 'The Mad Professor'.
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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
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My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life... And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils.
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If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
