Judy Blume Quotes
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'
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Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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If I'm staying in a hotel or I'm sleeping on my own I have the hairdryer on.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
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Moana is an incredible heroine. She's strong... She's got her two feet firmly planted. She's definitely grounded.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.
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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
