Carrie Tollefson (Carrie Anne Tollefson) Quotes
Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be active and stay healthy.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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I like children - fried.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
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I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.
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One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.
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My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo', and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.
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For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.
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Organization kills.
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Criticism comes to those who stand out.
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Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be active and stay healthy.
