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Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Phyllis McGinley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 21, 1905 - February 22, 1978

Topics

Time Christmas Nickel Dime How Put

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

Wisdom People Parent You Person

My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.

Learning Music Me World Road Kind

My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.

Son Age Parents Me Questions Asking

Dad knew how to disagree without being disagreeable or rude.

Rude Without Disagree Being Knew

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Positive Character Hope Man End See

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

People Person Know Some People Just

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

War American Tradition Starting Us

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

Truth Looking You Find Only Known

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Mikhail Bakunin

Weakness Powerful Crime Little Only

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

Michael K. Williams

You Take Level Something Oppressed

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Remember Nothing Poor Costs

It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.

Joy People Nice Give Able Very

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