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.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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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.
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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.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
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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.
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
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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.
