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Beverly Cleary Quotes

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1916

Topics

Love Children Best Think Teachers

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

Nation Passive Surprisingly

I really try my best not to get attached to a script, because I know what it takes: It takes you away from your family and what you like to do.

Family Best You Know Try Get

A lot of these girls have a goal in life to find a rich guy. I can smell it from a mile away. They won't catch me! I know what they look like. They come with their little Kelly bag and their Rolex and the Louboutin shoes that are slightly too sexy. Shove off! Do you think I'm going to be the next sucker here?

Life Shoes Me Rich Think Sexy

Some people treat seeing me as if they just won a car on 'The Price is Right.' The feet get going, and the hands start flapping, and it's really quite amazing. It's a little scary: you can't have more than two or three of them at the same time because someone might get hurt. But it's great fun.

Car Great Time Fun People Treat

'Sanctus' deals with creation myths in every culture. It fascinates me that all cultures, evolving independently, have similar models of mankind's origins, of a Greater Being, of the flood, and so on. It's amazing how they crop up time and time again.

Time Culture Amazing Me Creation Up

Much of a leader's responsibility in creating a positive, high-performance culture is setting the right tone and acting on it consistently. That day-to-day execution - the tenor and tone - really makes the difference. One deviation - one exasperating meeting - and the CEO legitimizes bad behavior.

Positive Leader Responsibility Acting

The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount of time formulating the perfect amount of sugar that will send us over the moon and send products flying off the shelves.

Time Food Moon Flying Perfect Sugar

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

Wealth Sound Real Rational Medium

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.

Business Imagination School Child

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

Business Children New York City New

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

Arthur Rankin, Jr.

Good Underdog Pictures Quest Guy

I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

Feel Important Talk Complex Us

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