Judy Blume Quotes

I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.

Judy Blume

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• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Israel
  • Hatred
  • Decade

• As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Together
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Great
  • Power
  • Supreme Court

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • War
  • Law
  • Military

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • School
  • Guy

• Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Power

• The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • History
  • English

• You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • You
  • Treat

• Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • May
  • Party

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ended

• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nothing
  • Holocaust
  • Compares

• I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Inspiration
  • Conversation
  • Conflict

• When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • You

• The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Win
  • Tree
  • Force

• And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Reason

• After a couple of days of complete hell , rest is at the top of the agenda. As he fades away to an overdue peacefulness, he misses her .

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Agenda
  • Misses
  • Peacefulness

• dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Dream
  • Secret
  • Shadow

• I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Perfect
  • Secret
  • Missing