Jean Craighead George Quotes
I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.
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I love ABC Family!
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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I love seeing lingerie on the runway, but I personally think it's best to save it for the bedroom!
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It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.
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In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
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I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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You know when a person goes into the ring to win, or at least not to lose. I mean, when a fighter is ready and goes to fight, than it can be seen by his look. Regardless of whether he gets hit or not, he goes forward, and regardless of whether he wins or loses, he wants to go forward, and it is clear from his burning eyes.
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All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.
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We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.
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I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.
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Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.
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I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain.
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I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.
