Judith Viorst Quotes
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
Quotes to Explore
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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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.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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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.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
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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.
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I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
