Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.
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It used to be, if you were a reporter, you wrote a story and then you moved on to the next one. We were used to people coming to the New York Times. We waited for them to turn on our website or to pick up our print paper and see what we have. We now understand that we have to make our stories available to our readers. A lot of people get their news from Facebook or Twitter and we want to make sure that they see some of our best stories there, too. We do this more aggressively now than we did before.
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I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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One day I'll be old, without ever having really been young.
