Judy Blume Quotes
The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

Quotes to Explore
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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There is so much more vegetable use in Thailand, India and China than meat. Yes, when you go to the markets or buy street food, you see shrimp or chicken - but mostly vegetables.
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My life is European.
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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.
Chaka Fattah
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My whole life I have passed for a "normal person," a cisgender straight guy, and this has afforded me a life of privilege, virtually no name-calling or bullying or hardship around my sexuality really at all.
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
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I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.
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People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.