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“I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.”
Source : "'National treasure' Andy Williams dies of bladder cancer at age 84", www.foxnews.com. September 26, 2012. 
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“I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good, God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.”
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“I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.”
Source : "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.
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“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
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“I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.”
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“Forget college, forget everything else, just educate yourself, your world around you, everything around you.”
Source : Source: www.parlemag.com
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“I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne”
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“Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.”
