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.
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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.
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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.'
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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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.
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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.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.
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I'm just so proud to be from San Francisco and to have a family history there. It's only two generations back, but still, it's two generations in San Francisco. I love it. I'm so proud of it.
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I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'
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The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.
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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.
