Caroline Lawrence Quotes

At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.

Caroline Lawrence

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Kids have been a great clarifier - incredibly rewarding.

Joanne Whalley

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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Maurice Sendak

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I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.

Jeff Lemire

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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Amelia Barr

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The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Stonewall Jackson

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When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Rita Rudner

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Rupert Brooke

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I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.

Michael Levitt

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Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.

Michael Madsen

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I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

Dennis Christopher

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I love to do glamorous things, like wear Valentino.

Debra Messing

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Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

Timothy Garton Ash

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