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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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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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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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.
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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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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
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I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confident, you look beautiful.
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It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.
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When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
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Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.
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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.
