Judy Blume Quotes
I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
