Amy Krouse Rosenthal Quotes
If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
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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.
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If your dad always has candy, how cool is he? Coolest dude in the world. My kids think I'm cool.
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The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
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I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
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The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.
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Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
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We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.
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I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.
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I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.
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What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
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I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
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Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.
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I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
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People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.
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We just did what we do. People think that we've changed and become somebody else, but really it seems that they've actually changed.
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Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu.
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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
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If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.
