Bel Kaufman Quotes
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
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Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
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My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.
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Wes Clark put forward a middle class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle class families, none without minor children at home, .. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
