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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What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.
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To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
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When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?
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'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
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People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
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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.
