Judith Viorst Quotes

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

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• I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Good
  • Want

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Tea
  • Numbers
  • Cup

• I wake up some mornings hating me too.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Wake Up

• It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Winning
  • Competition
  • Tough

• I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Person
  • Glory
  • Accomplish

• I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • College
  • Vision

• I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Food

• As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Small
  • Myself

• I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing. So it was a definitely a new adventure going in to audition for 'Glee.'

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Adventure

• I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Space
  • Body
  • Own

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Moment
  • Busy
  • Month

• The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • World
  • Words
  • Energy

• I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Worry

• I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Better