Bel Kaufman Quotes
And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
Quotes to Explore
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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I always work with 18 friends.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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Those are situations where you're almost guaranteed to give up one (run). In fact with second and third with no outs, we just hoped to minimize and maybe give up one, possible two runs. We just didn't want to extend the inning any further than that. To get out of both of those situations without giving up a run was a real boost for us. Offensively, I think it helped give us some momentum to build on.
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God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
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There is a difference between being educated and academics.
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And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
