#v

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while. ↗

— Vida Blue

#be nice #cocky #get #give #i

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. ↗

— Vida Blue

#asking #ball games #baseball #cameras #few

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. ↗

— Stella Blum

#claim #close #everybody #fashion #feelings

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. ↗

— Judy Blume

#creative #creative process #enjoy #i #process

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. ↗

— William Blum

#dictatorship #propaganda #violence

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#i #just #know #like #people

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. ↗

— William Blum

#also #beings #else #human #human beings

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. ↗

— Judy Blume

#books #censorship #due #fear #losers

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. ↗

— Judy Blume

#anything #become #could #even #grow

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. ↗

— Judy Blume

#always #brain #down #draft #drafts