Judy Blume Quotes
I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
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If you don't optimize for the consumer on the Internet, you're dead.
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Basic dance - and I should qualify the word basic - is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so-but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end-that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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Small businesses are more nimble and innovative than large corporations, and as a result are much more likely to develop the breakthrough ideas we need for global competitiveness.
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What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.
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In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.
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I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
