Carolyn Haywood Quotes

You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good.

Carolyn Haywood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 3, 1898 - January 11, 1990

Topics

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It seems like a gross waste of time to continue our career predicated on the idea that we're going to divide opinion. What's more important is just doing something that you love.

Andy Biersack

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Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?'

Sissy Spacek

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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

Roger Waters

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That's really the Holy Grail of conducting: how to change the sound of an orchestra just with our hands alone.

Ruth Reinhardt

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It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

Molly Ivins

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I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

Michael Moore

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We all get given these bodies, and they're all fascinating and different... I wouldn't want to be without the wrinkles.

Miranda Hart

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

Philip Emeagwali

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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Thomas Hobbes

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People like to put you a box. I've always been the wrong shape. Maybe you are, too. I think all the people who are wrong shapes for boxes should go out and march into the streets singing, 'We are the shapes! We don't fit the box.'

Noel Fielding

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