Paula Danziger Quotes

#1. I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.

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#2. I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

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#3. I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Amber Brown

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#4. In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.

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#5. He maybe be a jerk ... but he is my jerk ... he is my father. - Amber Brown

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#6. I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

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#7. At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.

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#8. When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

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#9. Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

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#10. Got to sit in this big uncomfortable chair with my head leaning back in this groove. The hair washer must have

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#11. Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.

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#12. None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

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#13. It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

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#14. definitely not best friends

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#15. I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now ... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

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#16. I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

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#17. We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

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#18. It's just about impossible to be perfect all the time. In fact, some days it's hard to do anything right. But sometimes things go really well. There are a lot of new things to learn, a lot of new rules and regulations.

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#19. I'm learning to be a part of a team, even if the team doesn't always to what I want. - Amber Brown

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#20. Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

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#21. Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

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#22. You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose ... but you can't pick your friends' noses.
Well, I didn't get to pick my parents.
I am glad that I have them, though.
I just wish that I wouldn't have to spend the rest of my life picking one of them and not the other. - Amber Brown

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#23. I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.

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#24. I know I'm not a perfect dad, Amber. But I'm trying."
You don't have to be perfect, I say."Just be my dad.

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#25. Fighting with your best friend is NO fun.

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#26. Of baking pans so that we can make individual brownies with

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#27. I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

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#28. My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

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#29. I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

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#30. I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

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#31. Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

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#32. The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

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#33. I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

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