'Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.


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I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK
I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK
I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK
For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK
All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON
He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON
There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON
From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON
Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON
Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON
I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON
The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON
I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho...
BARBARA OLSON
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an...
BARBARA MANDRELL
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t...
BARBARA MANDRELL