"I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid."

-- Judy Blume

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“'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.”
“What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.”
“Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.”
“The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.”
“Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.”
“It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.”

Source : "The week in one-liners" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. April 8, 2011.
“It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.”
“I can't compete with the Michael Bays of the world in regard to special effects and that kind of stuff. But you can compete in the dialogue and the one liners and the original characterisations and I think that's what people are responding to.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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