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"J. Smith-Cameron - Mrs. Welsch"
"Robert Joy - Mr. Welsch"
"Eartha Kitt - Agatha K. Plummer"
"Charlotte Sullivan - Marion Hawthorne"
"Teisha Kims - Rachel Hennessy"
"Cecilley Carroll - Beth Ellen Hansen"
"Dov Tiefenbach - Boy with Purple Socks"
"Nina Shock - Carrie Andrews"
"Connor Devitt - Pinky Whitehead"
"Alisha Morrison - Laura Peters"
"Nancy Beatty - Miss Elson"
"James Gilfillan - Archie Simmons"
"Gerry Quigley - Sport's Dad"
"Jackie Richardson - Janie's Mother"
"Roger Clown - Dr. Wagner"
"Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet M. Welsch"
"Rosie O'Donnell - Katherine "Ole Golly""
"I want to learn everything I can, and I write down everything I see. Golly says if I want to be a writer someday, I better start now, and that is why I am a spy."
"Vanessa Lee Chester - Janie Gibbs"
"Gregory Smith - Simon "Sport" Rocque"
"The only thing worse than being Marion Hawthorn, is wanting to be Marion Hawthorn."
"Carrie Andrews thinks she's cool because she spent her summer vacation growing boobs."
"Sometimes I think families here are exactly the same."
"There are as many ways to live in this world as there are people in this world, and each one deserves a closer look."
"You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's going to keep making people nervous for the rest of your life."
"Good friends are one of life's blessings. Don't give them up without a fight."
"Just because you're going to be alone now doesn't mean the world stops turning. You'll keep writing in your notebooks and when you're grown up and you publish your first novel, I'll be first in line at that bookstore, getting an autographed copy."
"You remember, a good spy can get in there and fight. Goodbye, Harriet the Spy."
"This stuff is beyond crap. It is what crap wants to be when it grows up."
"Janie's Mom: JANIE! I am sick to death of this mad scientist baloney! Look at this! Look at this!"
"See the world through the eyes of a spy."
"On your case!"
"Some kids collect insects. Others collect dolls. Harriet M. Welsh collects secrets."
"There's no lead she won't follow. No question she won't ask. And no way she'll ever get caught!"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.