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Jewell Parker Rhodes Quotes

I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1954

Topics

Mother Children Imagination Growing

If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude.

Gratitude You Down Way Write Out

I believed in God my whole life.

Life God Whole Believed

My favorite city is anything close to home. Anytime I can sleep in my own bed, that's a good one.

Good Home Sleep City I Can My Own

I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

College Loved Three Cuba Studying

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

End Always Take Us Sure Stories

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

More One Thing Union Far State

I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person.

Sunday Party Person Stay Much

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

Relationship People You Know Want

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Jonathan Frakes

Life Thought Galaxy Human Naive

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

Sad Alone Identity Hide Dressed She

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.

Stars Together Happy Healthy Movie

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Fear Man Kick Who Kicks Once

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