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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.


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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.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.



One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.



With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.



If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.



Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.



Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.



She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.



I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.



Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.



I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.





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Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.



A victory with so many victims is nothing but the biggest defeat!

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Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

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To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.



If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.



If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.

If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.



If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.



As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

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