Sherman Alexie Quotes
I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
Sherman Alexie
Quotes to Explore
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I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.
Oxana Chusovitina
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
Tea Leoni
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Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
Caitlin Flanagan
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Hannah More
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You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.
A. S. Byatt
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I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something. … I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out.
Elizabeth Berkley
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When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.
Cornelia Parker
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'400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.
Arthur Penn
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People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.
Emile Chartier
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
Sherman Alexie
