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Patricia Polacco Quotes

Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

Patricia Polacco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 11, 1944

Topics

Know Say Want Why Personal Write

I'd love to run for office, but it requires such knowledge.

Joanne Woodward

Love Knowledge Run Office Requires

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

Think Sand Country Transition Rock

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Women Freedom Justice Struggle Men

There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.

Grow Dignity Way Old Still

I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.

Maureen Chiquet

Listen Like Sponge

When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.

Character Experience I Am Cold Grit

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

Food Night Long I Can Talk Lines

In the morning, I'm juicing two apples, two carrots, two celery, two beets, two ginger. I'm drinking that every morning to try to keep the cancer away.

Morning Try Two Cancer Apples Keep

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

Age Nation Borrowing Function Just

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Mary Harris Jones

Truth Will Tell Wherever Please

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

Dolores del Rio

World Rest Place Pictures Far Away

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Myself World Look Find Never Hard

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