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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

Roald Dahl

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Business Calculator Confidence Inspirational Mathematics Myself Pocket Work Hard
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Business Face Goodness Inspirational Positive Shine Sun
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Book Care Finish Hate Reading Story
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
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Attribution Brave Courage Generosity Human Kindness Thinking
I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Humour Right Wrong
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing

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