Judy Blume Quotes
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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A good sign for me, that I'm a good spot mentally, is when I'm super prolific. And I just wake up every day excited to make or replicate music in some way. That's really nice.
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I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.
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You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
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I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.
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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
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In fact some Jews themselves even claim that there should be a statue to Adolf Hitler in Israel because he created the state of Israel...which is absolutely true, without Adolf Hitler Israel woud not exist
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I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid and was always doing bits for my friends and family. I remember doing pratfalls on the playground in fourth grade for my friend and really hurting my hip.
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I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.
