Top 37 Barbara Park Quotes
#1. And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#7. All of my characters are less than perfect.
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#9. There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.
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#13. Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.
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#14. Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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#15. 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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#16. For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
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#17. That Grace looked annoyed at me.
"I didn't say you would go to jail, Junie B.," she said. "I just wish you would say the word correctly, that's all.
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#18. They really liked each other, too. Not like boyfriend and girlfriend, I don't mean. But they both had naturally curly hair, and they both thought professional wrestling was real
which are two pretty strong bonds, when you think about it.
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#19. 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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#20. Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age
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#21. Then Mrs. confiscated my shiny glitter jar. Confiscate is the school word for yanked it right out of my hand.
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#22. Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?
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#24. A little glitter can turn your whole day around.
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#25. 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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#27. I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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#28. 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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#29. I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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#30. I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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#31. Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. Okay, here is the problem," I said. "Assignment means schoolwork, and Hawaii means vacation. And children do not actually like to mix those two items.
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#35. 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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#36. A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.
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#37. 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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