Jack Prelutsky Quotes
My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.
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I like to learn from everyone I perform with. I have learnt a lot from Paritosh Tripathi, my co-anchor on 'Super Dancer,' and also my good friend Ravi Dubey.
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I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.
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My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
