Judy Blume Quotes

Adult novels was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

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• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Enemy
  • Your
  • Deceive

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Wealth

• The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Important
  • Food

• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Perception
  • Act

• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Rest

• Faith is never identical with piety.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Faith
  • Never
  • Piety

• I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Conservative
  • Washington

• Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Long
  • Experience

• Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Technology
  • Economic
  • Europe

• A man of truth must also be a man of care.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth

• I'd like to go back to Buffy, but I've been in a coma, I've jumped off a building, I've been in prison - how many other ways can they bring me back? But those guys are geniuses, so who knows?

  

  Eliza Dushku

• They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

  

  Al Sharpton
  • Up
  • Gay

• In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

  

  Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • Faith

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • American
  • Son

• Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.

  

  Lauren Beukes
  • Up
  • World
  • Writing

• Adult novels was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

  

  Judy Blume
  • World
  • Teenager
  • Novel