Evan Esar Quotes
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
Evan Esar
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson
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At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.
Jools Holland
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History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.
Eamon Duffy
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Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.
William Golding
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
Walton Goggins
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Part I, 4
Charles Olson
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The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
Evan Esar
