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Our nannas are losers.
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Moving makes you feel all alone inside.
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All Alone
Feels
Moving
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A little glitter can turn your whole day around.
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Glitter
Littles
Turns
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I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.
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Children
Oxymoron
Perfect
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Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age
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Age
Old Age
Sometimes
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I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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Oxymoron
Perfect
Term
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I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.
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Clown
Normal
People
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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Book
Enough
Books
Grown-Up
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Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
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Good And Bad
Way
Good Society Bad
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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Novels
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A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.
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Forever
Hurt
Names
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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Hurtful
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Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?
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Guts
Hate
I Hate
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Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.
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Sadness
Sometimes
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For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
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Work Me Way
Gotten
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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Reluctant
Books
Laugh
Readers
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And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.
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Knows
Sometimes
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Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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Swollen
Aches
Man Me Feet
Pains
Pregnancies
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The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.
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Grief
Mean
Thoughtful
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My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
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Criteria
Entirely
Official
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I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.
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Friends
Believe
Pretending
Problem
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My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
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Senior
Witty
Writing
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My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
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Humor
Decided
High School
If I Could
Senior
Senior Year
Witty
Voted
Hand
Later
Several
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I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.
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Black And White
Comment
Common Denominator
Lowest
Black And White World Black
Denominator
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
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Kids
Teacher
Children
Urgent
Good Enough Me
Teachers
Entertained
Good Me Enough
Immediately
Occasionally
Rarely
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I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.
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Flying
Good Life
Hate
Lazy
Lifestyle
Noon
Nudge Nudge
Pajamas
Good Hate Me
Dressed
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I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
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Over The Top
Principal
Time Education Home
Board
Education Time Home
First Grade
Grade
Note
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
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Assuming
Character Me People
Little Girl
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I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. It's perfectly okay to take a book, read it, have a good time, giggle and laugh - and turn off the TV. I love that.
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Book
Thinking
Two
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Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.
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Mean
Thinking
Weather
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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Common Denominator
Simplest
Look Feel Way
Denominator
Look Way Feel
Object
Struggling
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When you’re in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It’s not as exciting as being a television star, but it’s not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you’re finished resting.
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Dream
Mean
Stars
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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Smile
Book
Children
Extraordinary
Fun
Huge
Lessons
Models
Moral
Offers
Perfect
Reader
Role Models
Gives
Happen
Impose
In Fact
Measured
Personally
Terms
Role
Value
Tries
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