Beverly Cleary Quotes

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.

Beverly Cleary

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.

Jeremy Sisto

ExperienceNew YorkChildPeopleYou

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

Jennifer Granholm

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I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

Ann Cotton

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You need to define yourself in the marketplace.

Steve Madden

YourselfYouNeedDefineMarketplace

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Robert Crais

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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Rita Mae Brown

LifeLiveLive LifeControlThink

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.

Mona Eltahawy

WomenGodYouI CanSeeMust

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

Jose Padilha

ThinkMediaYouNowLittleNeeds

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.

Jonathan Safran Foer

BestQuestionsAskBooksMost

I haven't done lots of horror.

Christopher Lee

DoneHorrorLots

You have to use what you know to make a part real.

Chrissy Metz

YouKnowRealMakeUsePart

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

Clint Eastwood

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