Judy Blume Quotes
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'
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As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
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I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
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Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
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Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.
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I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
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I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.
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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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Europe was the major surprise for the month.
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My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
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I want to crush everyone. I want to outsmart everyone.
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A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.
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There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.
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The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet understand that it will all go away.
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Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
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Feminism without femininity is a sham.
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My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.
