Judy Blume Quotes
I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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As actors, we shouldn't worry too much about the language we are going to speak in a film.
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I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
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When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.
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Politics disgusts me.
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Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
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I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
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Art should not be an easy thing.
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I'm on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith - she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
