Judy Peiser quote: "The feel of this year's festival is so exciting. Whether it's Mouse Rocket or [gospel group] The Sensational Six, the music is just great. The level of professionalism is really strong in every category, and I am amazed by the variety of performers."

Tonya and IQ are strong in their own traditions. Through their connections in the music scene, they ...
JUDY PEISER

I asked if he knew who [Mississippi poet] Etheridge Knight was. He said no, and I told him until you...
JUDY PEISER

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.
JUDY HOLLIDAY

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.
JUDY COLLINS

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers w...
JUDY BLUME

I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.
JUDY BLUME

My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Pleas...
JUDY BLUME

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.
JUDY BLUME

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't...
JUDY HOLLIDAY

I'd been dating my husband for about a year, and I'd already kissed George Clooney, Ashton K...
JUDY GREER

Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small populati...
JUDY HORACEK

That's a lot of words about the weather, but in Canberra you can't help but be aware of the ...
JUDY HORACEK

The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: &...
JUDY HORACEK

While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets ...
JUDY HORACEK

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.
JUDY COLLINS

When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,&#...
JUDY BLUME

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if ...
JUDY BLUME

My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag car...
JUDY GOLD

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't w...
JUDY BLUME

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.
JUDY SHEINDLIN

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
JUDY GARLAND

I have a phonetic fetish. All I want is to find a man whose last name ends in 'Vrski' and marry him....
JUDY BALAN

I love therapy. I don't get the taboo about seeking therapy at all. It's exactly like taking Buzzfee...
JUDY BALAN

Modern-Day Parenting is no joke. For starters, no one takes you seriously unless you have a fancy pa...
JUDY BALAN

Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else.
JUDY GARLAND

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
JUDY GARLAND

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've ...
JUDY GARLAND

If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her.
JUDY GARLAND

Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous.
JUDY MOREO

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
JUDY GARLAND

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than t...
JUDY GARLAND

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow....
JUDY GARLAND

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk ...
JUDY BLUME

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my s...
JUDY GARLAND

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by ...
JUDY GARLAND

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or...
JUDY SMITH

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No...
JUDY BIGGERT

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the go...
JUDY WOODRUFF

This is why Alzheimer's is such a terrible disease: the body of the person you love is there, bu...
JUDY PARFITT

But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grand...
JUDY WOODRUFF

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, b...
JUDY BIGGERT

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
JUDY GARLAND

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by r...
JUDY GARLAND

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
JUDY GARLAND

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of ...
JUDY GARLAND

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a m...
JUDY GARLAND

Behind every cloud is another cloud.
JUDY GARLAND

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won...
JUDY GOLD

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and earl...
JUDY BIGGERT

As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naught...
JUDY REYES

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting N...
JUDY BLUME

That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can u...
JUDY PARFITT

I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says -...
JUDY BLUME

I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a te...
JUDY GREER

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.
JUDY SHEINDLIN

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?
JUDY WOODRUFF

Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. S...
JUDY SHEINDLIN

It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you h...
JUDY GREER

If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself...
JUDY COLLINS

When I go on vacation, I leave my house in total order: bills paid, garbage out, no milk in the refr...
JUDY SHEINDLIN

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance ...
JUDY HOLLIDAY

I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.
JUDY SHEINDLIN

A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out an...
JUDY SMITH

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it'...
JUDY CHICAGO

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.
JUDY GOLD

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.
JUDY BIGGERT

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recomm...
JUDY COLLINS

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
JUDY CHICAGO

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it&#...
JUDY DAVIS

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a...
JUDY BLUME

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the p...
JUDY BLUME

Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.
JUDY BLUME

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
JUDY GARLAND

You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and dayd...
JUDY BLUME

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.
JUDY PARFITT

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope...
JUDY BLUME

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I ha...
JUDY BLUME

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.
JUDY PARFITT

When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ...
JUDY BLUME

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books...
JUDY BLUME

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
JUDY COLLINS

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts...
JUDY COLLINS

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That wo...
JUDY SHEINDLIN

I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.
JUDY BLUME

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power the...
JUDY BLUME

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it...
JUDY BLUME

Wings of angels, tears of saints won't bring you back to me (about her son's suicide) (He will come ...
JUDY COLLINS

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.
JUDY BLUME

Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways t...
JUDY AYDELOTT

It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do.
JUDY AYDELOTT

I am proud to be a Democrat. Unfortunately, some of my political opponents are attempting to mislead...
JUDY AYDELOTT

The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. The tro...
JUDY AYDELOTT

I am still experimenting with a little bit of the chemistry on the field, working in some of the sop...
JUDY ANDERSON

There are inspirational words all over it. I thought it was going to be a little one-day project, an...
JUDY ANDERSON

Our concepts for the Hilton are innovative and will be trend-setting in the hospitality industry. We...
JUDY ANDERSON

The way they're so proper.
JUDY ANDERSON

And it's kind of hard to prioritize things when you're not sure you've got enough money to run your ...
JUDY ANDERSON

It's projects that have been on the program and on hold for so many years,
JUDY ANDERSON

Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010,
JUDY ANDERSON

They do that for all the employees, ... In some places, the employees pay a portion of their share f...
JUDY ANDERSON

We are finally starting to click and run our transition like we knew we could. We are throwing and c...
JUDY ANDERSON

Tasty Wednesday
JUDY ANDERSON

The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store.
JUDY ALFORD

You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. They argue about it, ...
JUDY ALFORD

You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.
JUDY ALFORD

It said the birds would eat the berries if there was a bad winter, but even with a cold snap, they s...
JUDY ALFORD

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.
JUDY SMITH

I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.
JUDY SHEINDLIN

Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying...
JUDY PARFITT

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impu...
JUDY CHICAGO

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never...
JUDY GARLAND

I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is kno...
JUDY GARLAND

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who w...
JUDY GARLAND

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
JUDY GARLAND

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
JUDY GRAHN

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
JUDY GARLAND

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recor...
JUDY COLLINS

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else
JUDY GARLAND

THE MANY FACES OF SURVIVAL

Sunday, August 10th at 2:00 PST

Dachau Liberator, m...
JUDY GREGERSON

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertain...
JUDY GREER

We've got a problem. There does appear to be a trend that reproduction is not enough -- especially o...
JUDY VISTY

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I bel...
JUDY CHICAGO

Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best ...
JUDY BLUME

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark remind...
JUDY BIGGERT

Rightfully given near-deity status in the early days of industrial America, the J.P. Morgans, Rockef...
JUDY SMITH

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do ...
JUDY CHICAGO

A good writer is always a people watcher.
JUDY BLUME

He struck me many times,
JUDY GARLAND

I could sketch out a score in different keys, a new way each time.
JUDY GARLAND

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is su...
JUDY GARLAND

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our ...
JUDY GARLAND

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the flo...
JUDY GARLAND

If you sit down for 20 minutes in this business now it's a comeback,
JUDY GARLAND

I'm the original take-orders girl.
JUDY GARLAND

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
JUDY GARLAND

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It...
JUDY GARLAND

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse ...
JUDY GARLAND

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
JUDY GARLAND

That way you won't need to pick at anything before lunchtime.
JUDY DAVIE

A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People ...
JUDY GARLAND

People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.
JUDY HOLLIDAY

When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was al...
JUDY GOLD

He is morally and intellectually superior to his white masters. They're lazy where he is hardworking...
JUDY CHRISTENSEN

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.
JUDY DAVIS

I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around w...
JUDY BLUME

It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as ...
JUDY HORACEK

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, t...
JUDY BIGGERT

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, the...
JUDY COLLINS

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client ...
JUDY SMITH

If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasi...
JUDY BIGGERT

When clients are involved in a crisis, we often start at the end. When this is over, where do you wa...
JUDY SMITH

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row...
JUDY WOODRUFF

My ears are too beeg for my head. My head ees too beeg for my body. I am not a Siamese cat ... I AM ...
JUDY SCHACHNER

I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment...
JUDY SHEINDLIN

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies...
JUDY WOODRUFF

I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids t...
JUDY BLUME

When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing.
JUDY BLUME

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.
JUDY GARLAND

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.
JUDY GREER

Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast c...
JUDY GOLD

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to pres...
JUDY BLUME

I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book...
JUDY BLUME

I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford...
JUDY PARFITT

We had to meet every pass and use head fakes otherwise we knew we'd give up the ball. We didn't alwa...
JUDY VOGT

There's great majesty with the instrument. There's also great sensitivity.
JUDY KORT

I remember telling her, 'You'd better be careful and hurry back,' ... I don't think they were going ...
JUDY SHEPHERD

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.
JUDY JOHNSON

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play t...
JUDY JOHNSON

We cannot decide if she is blunt or sharp
JUDY JOHNSON

We (the board) didn't want to do what the commissioners wanted us to do. We felt that the original O...
JUDY DAVIS

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's...
JUDY DAVIS

This is government, ... There is no entertainment.
JUDY DAVIS

I'm not one to show off. The way I looked at it was that my family liked it, and that was OK with me...
JUDY DAVIS

just as soon as they send us the equipment we're hoping in about a month.
JUDY DAVIS

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it w...
JUDY DAVIS

I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a so...
JUDY DAVIS

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and ...
JUDY DAVIS

Changing the bottom line - the economic line - and caring for each other and for the community, that...
JUDY REBICK

Reputations can be built, attacked, and destroyed on social media. It's a huge game-changer - in...
JUDY SMITH

It worked for Garbo and Elvis.
JUDY WADE

Our big project is the Golden Goose Thrift shop. It has truly been the golden goose that has laid th...
JUDY SMITH

You lock your windows before you leave. You put on an alarm if you live in the country because you k...
JUDY SHEINDLIN

Cameron knows what he wants and that was good for me.
JUDY GREER

Sock it to me!
JUDY CARNE

As some House Republicans tell it, their vote today to change party rules was not just about protect...
JUDY WOODRUFF

I was always lonesome. The only time I felt accepted or wanted was when I was on stage performing. I...
JUDY GARLAND

With a long distant friend, I enjoy changing this obstacle into an opportunity by creating annual 'f...
JUDY DIPPEL

Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still...
JUDY CORNISH

Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are...
JUDY CORNISH

Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not ever...
JUDY BLUME

I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic tim...
JUDY GREER

My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva ...
JUDY BLUME

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.
JUDY BLUME

In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
JUDY GARLAND

When you open a building, you incur all those budgetary concerns, and if we close the building, we d...
JUDY DANIELS

got out of his seat, walked toward the cockpit and started kicking at the cockpit door.
JUDY ORIHUELA

You've got to lighten up because our lives are jokes, ... My whole idea is that we just have to acce...
JUDY CARTER

There is hope in knowing this about postpartum depression: You are not the only one to experience th...
JUDY DIPPEL

Postpartum depression and anxiety that 11-20% of women experience is not at all the same as the more...
JUDY DIPPEL

The feel of this year's festival is so exciting. Whether it's Mouse Rocket or [gospel group] The Sensational Six, the music is just great. The level of professionalism is really strong in every category, and I am amazed by the variety of performers.

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Judy Peiser

The feel of this year's festival is so exciting. Whether it's Mouse Rocket or [gospel group] The Sensational Six, the music is just great. The level of professionalism is really strong in every category, and I am amazed by the variety of performers.

Judy Peiser

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