Judy Blume Quotes
The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I can do whatever I want.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
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I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.
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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
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I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
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When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space.
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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
