Margaret Haddix Quotes
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
Margaret Haddix
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
Majandra Delfino
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
Barbara Boxer
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
Zooey Deschanel
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
Dan Rather
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
Patricia Heaton
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
Pat Buchanan
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson
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I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.
Fortune Feimster
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
Laura Moser
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
Calvin Johnson
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian
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Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.
Mario Balotelli
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I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.
Sam Hunt
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People typically only believe they're in a negotiation when dollars are involved. And maybe sometimes they're smart enough to see if there's a commodity that you can count being exchanged. And, of course, the commodity that we most commonly exchange is money.
Christopher Voss
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There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
Margaret Haddix
