Bel Kaufman Quotes
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
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My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
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I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
