Jean Craighead George Quotes
I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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My dad was so much fun growing up.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.
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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
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I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.
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Victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand.
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I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.
