Laura Schlessinger Quotes
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.
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I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.
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When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able to reignite a whole entire new generation, not just inside the U.S. but across the globe, centering black people and centering the fight against white supremacy.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
