Judy Blume Quotes
I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
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Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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But being a film actor is very different from, say, a theater actor. You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. So I am very involved with the character, but I have to leave it as soon as it's finished. And also, you always have to be at the right level when it's time to shoot, which is not always the best time for the actor. Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.
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A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen. We need seeds because they are the physical manifestation of that concept that we call hope.
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I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
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I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
