Jean Craighead George Quotes
Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'
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It's those damn critics again.
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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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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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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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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
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The demands they have made could not be met without great damage to jobs and industry, to essential services ... to pensioners and children.
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Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'
