Judith Viorst Quotes

Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled out by a hostile, malicious universe that is picking exclusively on me.' And then you read a book about bad days and realize they happen to everyone, not just tormented, persecuted you.

Judith Viorst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 2, 1932

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When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

Joel Grey

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I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

John Lanchester

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The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.

Ann Cotton

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For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

Ruth Ozeki

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Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

Michael Pollan

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More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

Mitchell Zuckoff

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I got cast for 'Spring Awakening' when I was 20. Every dream I had came true in that moment.

Jonathan Groff

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I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

Johnny Gimble

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Everything I do, I do infinite percent.

Drew Barrymore

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I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?

David Suzuki

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I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

Branford Marsalis

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A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

Avi

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