Margaret Wise Brown Quotes
In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.
