Patricia Polacco Quotes
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
Patricia Polacco
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
Wanda Sykes
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
Aaron Neville
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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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.
Sam Brownback
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I think all kids are curious. They're drawn to the bad guy and they're drawn to things that are dark. It's not just simply a desire to be wicked. I think there are things that frighten us in life and, especially children, they want to understand and take it on or understand it so it frightens them less.
Angelina Jolie
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We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.
Dale Carnegie
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I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
Barry Levinson
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Introversion, when embraced, is a wellspring of riches. It took me years to acknowledge this simple reality, to claim my home, and to value all it offers.
Laurie Helgoe
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I'm single, and I hate dating.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
Patricia Polacco