Judy Blume Quotes
Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.
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Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
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Pop music is probably the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the general public. The more people buy a record, the more successful it is - not only commercially but artistically.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.
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What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that.
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'I have no wish to argue, Father. Yet it must be said that the monks exist here in peace and security only because of the swords of the defenders. I do not belittle your views — I wish all men shared them. But they do not. ... if all men and women lived as you and I, there would be no children, and no humanity. What then would be the Will of the Source?'
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.
