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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Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.
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When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is...
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In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely to be the extant superpower for several decades to come. Few anticipated how quickly the neoconservative project would run into the sands - or that China would rise so quickly.
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Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
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It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.
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Relationships with children come first.
