Judy Blume Quotes
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
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History will treat me right.
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I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
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My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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Write about what you don't know about what you know.
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It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
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When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
