Judy Blume Quotes

I thought "Summer Sisters" would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

Judy Blume

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• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Words

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Words
  • Loss
  • Even

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Great
  • Control

• I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

  

  Iman
  • Believe
  • Vanity
  • Genes

• Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Internet
  • Option
  • Accept

• I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• There's been a progression in my sound.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Sound
  • Been
  • Progression

• I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Career
  • Beginning

• Pan Am takes good care of you. Marks & Spencer loves you. Securicor cares. I.B.M. says the customer is king. At Amstrad, we only want your money!

  

  Alan Sugar
  • Good
  • Money
  • King

• As, not only as an entertainer but as a person who who cared a lot and I gave the best that I could and I tried to be the best role model that I possibly could and the best person I could I tried to help.

  

  Selena
  • Help
  • Model

• It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Culture

• Certainly 'Survivors,' when we put that series out, the second series dipped below 5 million for one of the episodes - all of a sudden, there's no recommission, and I think that's dreadful.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito

• There are things - I want to compete in a big tournament, like an eight-man tournament, like the old fighters. You're going to compete; you're going to fight this one and this one.

  

  Demetrious Johnson

• The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Evil

• I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Together
  • Justice

• Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Great

• Kids are different. Boys and girls at 14, 15, 16 - some are more developed in the mind; some aren't... It comes down to the individual.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Individual

• You always want to aim high.

  

  James Bobin
  • High

• You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Thinking
  • Wanted
  • Policy

• I thought "Summer Sisters" would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Different
  • Book
  • Together