Bel Kaufman Quotes

Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. “Again I didn’t win? But last year I didn’t win also!”

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• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Day

• I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Time
  • Work
  • Eyes

• I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Doing
  • Looking
  • Roots

• I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Me
  • Running
  • Gym

• I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Opinion
  • Cancer
  • Accept

• It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Up
  • Home
  • Beauty

• I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Dark
  • Enjoy

• People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Obstacles

• When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Know
  • Play
  • First

• A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • See
  • Generation
  • Market

• I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • Season
  • Editing

• People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • People
  • Me
  • Make

• And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Reputation

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • World
  • Moving
  • Information

• There's a right-wing football and a left-wing football. Right-wing football wants to suggest that life is struggle. It demands sacrifices. We have to become of steel and win by any method.

  

  Cesar Luis Menotti
  • Football
  • Struggle
  • Win

• Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

  

  Homer
  • Good
  • Learned
  • Tome

• Her disappointment was minor compared to her astonishment. “Again I didn’t win? But last year I didn’t win also!”

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Win
  • Disappointment
  • Astonishment