Judy Blume Quotes

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Mind
  • Hold
  • Lays

• I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Great
  • Men
  • Fame

• Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Family
  • Business
  • Mother

• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Small
  • City

• When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Me
  • Support
  • More

• There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Small
  • Nothing
  • Income

• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • War
  • Cause
  • Principal

• I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Work
  • Like

• I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • City

• I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Hand

• Γνώσῃ διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.

  

  Aeschylus

• Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Eclipse

• Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value. As an artist I do what I like. As a collector I collect what I like.

  

  Oliver Emberton
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Real

• I've always believed in expanding the definition of what a Marvel Studios movie could be.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Movie

• When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Book
  • Mother

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Period
  • Youth

• It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

  

  Mark Rydell
  • Today
  • Independent

• I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Book
  • Kids