Calpurnia Quotes

• 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.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Husband, Attitude, Regret

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

  Harper Lee

  Knows, 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.

  Harper Lee

  Sunday, Play, Class

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

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Happiness, Book, Bed

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

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• 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.

  Sarah MacLean

  Mother, Children, Eye

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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.'

  Katy Mixon

  Jobs, College, Utah

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

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