Margaret Wise Brown Quotes
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.
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Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
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A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
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The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.
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In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
