Judy Blume Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I got sober, and I got happy again.
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If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
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I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.
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I hate art auctions.
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Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
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My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch.
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The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.
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People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
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I care about women's rights and reproductive rights and my gay friends being able to keep their marriages official. You don't want your genre to disown you for it - and I don't think they would now - but you still see that sort of hatred and vitriol that comes with disagreeing with the conservative agenda.
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I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
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I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.
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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
