Laura Schlessinger Quotes
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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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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 think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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Both my own process and that of the publishing industry are just too slow to do anything other than play catch-up when it comes to anticipating change.
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I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.
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Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
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I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
