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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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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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 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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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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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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Officials in the George W. Bush administration later criticized the cruise missile strikes that were ordered by President Bill Clinton in Afghanistan in 1998 as only 'pounding sand.'
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James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
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This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.
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My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.
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The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.
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Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
