Masiela Lusha Quotes
I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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I like children - fried.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
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I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.
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Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
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I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.
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I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
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I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.