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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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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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There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
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I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
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If you're public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you're nervous about a date and thinking, 'I'm gonna be a dork,' picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.
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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.
