Calpurnia Quotes

• She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia." She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant name - a name with which no one but a helplessly romantic mother with an unhealthy obsession with Shakespeare would have considered saddling a child.

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  Sarah MacLean

  Mother   Children   Eye  

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• Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

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  Jacqueline Kelly

  Happiness   Book   Bed  

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.60, Macmillan

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• I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend them on matters of drainage and overdue accounts? I must husband my hours and spend every one of them wisely. I regret that I didn't come to this realization until I reached fifty years of age. Calpurnia, you would do well to adopt such an attitude at an earlier age. Spend each of your allotted hours with care.

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  Jacqueline Kelly

  Husband   Attitude   Regret  

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• My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'

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  Katy Mixon

  Jobs   College   Utah  

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not necessary to tell all you know.

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  Harper Lee

  Knows   Calpurnia   Ladylike  

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.45, Infobase Publishing

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• Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to a chair and placed her in the furnace room. We forgot her, trooped upstairs to church, and were listening quietly to the sermon when a dreadful banging issued from the radiator pipes, persisting until someone investigated and brought forth Eunice Ann saying she didn't want to play Shadrach any more - Jem Finch said she wouldn't get burnt if she had enough faith, but it was hot down there.

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  Harper Lee

  Sunday   Play   Class  

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