Judy Blume Quotes

What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

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• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
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  • Job
  • Reading

• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

  Hank Ketcham
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  • Business

• My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!

  

  Rachel Joyce
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• Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
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• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
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• I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • History

• Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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• The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.

  

  Damian Marley
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• Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
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  • Heart
  • Night

• My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I'm saying at this moment. I don't know. It's not something I'm obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.

  

  Blythe Danner
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• Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
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• It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.

  

  Eleanor Catton
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• A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

  

  Anne Stevenson
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• We are always manifesting. Each thought we have creates an energy flow within and around our physical being. This energy attracts its likeness. So if you're thinking, 'I suck,' then your energy kinda, well, sucks - and you attract sucky experiences.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
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• I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

  

  Kerry Washington
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  • Good
  • Believe

• I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.

  

  Karan Patel
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  • Thinking
  • Relationship

• Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

  

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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• You're thinking about the physical consequences about what you're writing if you're going to direct it. If you're not going to direct it, then it's somebody else's problem, and they'll solve it.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
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  • Writing

• I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

  

  Montel Williams
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• Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

  

  Helen McCrory
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  • Film
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• What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?

  

  Judy Blume
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