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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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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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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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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I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.
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When you return to your homes rise up to the height of a generation of men worthy of a free Government, and we will carry out the great work we have commenced. I return to you my sincere thanks, soldiers, for the honor you have done me this afternoon.
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My death scene in 'The Salton Sea' is really weird. I mean, I get shot in the head. What experience can you possibly draw from? There's nothing you can compare it to, really.
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While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
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I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.
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I have two mini dachshunds, Lola and Charlie.
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I would never want to force you to do something you don't want to do, I don't ever want to take something from you that you don't want to give me.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit.
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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.
