Bette Greene Quotes
A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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I love men who make me laugh.
Nastassja Kinski
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There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
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Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
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I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
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As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.
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But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I don't care about money.
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Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
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A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.
