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"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
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"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
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"I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years."
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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
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"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
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"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
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"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
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"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."
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"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."
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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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"I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants."
People
"But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says."
Love
"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."
Nation
"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."
Beginning
"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."
Family
"I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office."
Childhood
"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."
Childhood
"The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math."
Writing
"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply."
Life
"I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults."
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