Enid Blyton Quotes
If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
Quotes to Explore
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I took a job as a reporter in India, where I lived with several married couples, which got me interested in why some marriages work and others fail. Back home, many women of my generation were also putting off marriage or not getting married at all, which only led me to more questions.
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.
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My favorite show is 'Parks and Recreation.'
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You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.
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If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
