Judy Blume Quotes
Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.
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They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
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I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
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I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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Politics has become entertainment.
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When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.'
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I like English spirit.
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If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?
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Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
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Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.
