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Geraldine McCaughrean Quotes

The chief thing is to make children feel good about themselves. They want to step into the shoes of a hero who is bigger and stronger, to face tremendous dangers and come home safely for tea.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: June 6, 1951

Topics

Good Home Children Shoes Hero Step

Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.

Jimmy Breslin

Morning Words College You Want Will

I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something else. I'm reflective of the way this country's gonna be in the next 40 years. More multicultural is what we'll see.

Jimmy Smits

I Am Me Country Way More See

My love of literature goes back to my childhood.

Jerry Hall

Love Childhood Literature Back Goes

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

John B. Larson

Future Fight Details Devil Measure

The critics don't bother me.

Robert Stigwood

Me Critics Bother

I think people know what they're getting with my name, because they've seen my specials on Netflix.

Anjelah Johnson

People Think Name Know Netflix Seen

No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.

Amitava Kumar

Tolerance Civilization Capable Each

I never dreamed that they would ask me to do a TV show. I'm the most surprised person of all.

Trisha Yearwood

Me Person Never Ask Show Would

Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first 'Survivor' it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories and want to see more and more. Every new 'Survivor' is going to show you more.

Montel Williams

Think You New Want Why Personal

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

Joseph Stefano

Name Play More Bigger Star Her

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Change Think Question Come Changed

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Anne Sexton

Beautiful Writing Saying Better Sex