Berkeley Breathed Quotes
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
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'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
