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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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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He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.
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I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
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In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.
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I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.
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My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.
