"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood……" — Anita Diament
"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."
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53 Quotes by Anita Diament
Anita Diament has 53 quotes on this site.
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Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
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There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up…
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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.
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As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for…
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It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor…
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
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Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
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England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high…
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