Margaret Wise Brown Quotes
There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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[On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.
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A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'
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I'm not one of those people who write all the time. Sometimes I'll go several months without writing anything. I'll sometimes second guess myself and wonder if I'll ever write another song.
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There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
