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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#been #books #children #delight #enjoying

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#attention #convinced #downturn #economic #enough

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#doing #general #general public #historian #i

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #december #demonstrations

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#different #events #fly #helicopters #incompetent

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#journalist #live #lot #other #people

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#business #couple #department #department store #even

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#i #i think #live #make #marriage

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#audience #because #being #being ignored #bulk

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#i #i think #people #should #stories