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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The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.
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I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?
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It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be.
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While eating right is a long-term goal, eating better is something we can start today. Eating better entails small steps.
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My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.
