Ornella Muti Quotes
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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Children are all foreigners.
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There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.
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I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.
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I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to drive me to the rink before school and then drive me to practice after school - it's a huge commitment for any family.
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Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
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Relationships with children come first.
