Judy Blume Quotes
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'
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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
