Judy Blume Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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I'm tired of being considered property.
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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It's not fair for little kids to feel bad about themselves for how they look.
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
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The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.
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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
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I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
