The Right Words at the Right Time

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Summary: humble
Review: I have a great amount of respect for Marlo. I guess it is because as a young girl she taught to be free so long ago.
This book is like a grown up edition of "Free to be You and Me". She has chosen people who have practiced that very thing, "free to be".
I would have loved to have read more about her experiances, but, as we know she is humble and makes others see what they have to offer to the world before her self.
One suggestion if she ever gets to read this, is I would love to find out where the young children of so long ago have gone with thier lives. Some have become celebrities crossing their own roads.I love to read about extra ordinary people in extrodinary ordinary lives.

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Summary: Great book in any angle -- [e-mail]
Review: I particularly liked Jennifer Aniston's story.I think i will enjoy "Friends" more as I feel like knowing what moves Jennifer.I can relate to Jeff Bezos story too.Yes Jeff, it is harder to be kind than to be clever. Toni Morrison has told a fantastic tale.
vow, you cannot forget Stephen Ambrose's tale too. Vow, I never knew Cindy Crawford have such a deep spiritual strenght in her and it is a moving story from her. Rudi Giaulini's story, you did a learn a great lesson Rudi and thanks for passing it on.

I have a baby of four months old now. Now I understand to my bones what a great sacred responsibility and honour God has given me as a Parent to my daughter. When i read all some of this famous personalities relating the deep impact their parents' words had on them, i feel an awesome and thrilling responsibility to be a good role model and a good teacher to my daughter. Hey, nobody in the world might care a damn about what i say, but the few words i say to my daughter may shape and sustain my daughter's life forever.

As a parent, you should read the stories in this book to get this lesson in your heart. Your words can make or break your child. Our words can become the EMOTIONAL SPINE of our children.

Thanks Marlo.

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Summary: The Right Book at the Right Time
Review: I really, really liked this book. In fact, as soon as I finished it I wanted to share it so I sent it (priority mail - no less!) to my friend in California.

I remember my dad saying "If something is worth doing, it's worth doing well" and that's in the book. Obviously those were words that came at the "right time" for me.

There's a lot in the book to think about. It's not a celebrity book by any means - its a people book. Words are very powerful and sometimes at the most unexpected times, they have such an impact on your life you never forget them. The same goes for this book.

It's to be enjoyed and then shared and remembered. Marlo Thomas has always gone for quality, not quantity. This one can sit proudly beside "Free to Be" - unless you send it to a friend.

Don't pass it by.

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Summary: Inspiring
Review: So many people contributed to this book and it has excellent and sometimes humerous words of advice for life. What is the greatest part about it though is that Marlo is donating ALL of her proceeds form the book to her father's children's cancer hospital (St. Jude in Memphis). Very admirable and unselfish. Great book!!

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Summary: Great Stories!
Review: The book is filled with over 100 'stories' of how someone spoke the right words at the right time to someone and it helped to change their lives. The stories are heartwarming, some funny and all encouraging.
I dont understand the negatives remarks that have been made about Marlo from other reviewers. She is a talented, beautiful woman, who has picked up where her father left off, helping the children of St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
Thank you Marlo, and all those in the book that shares intimate details of their lives with us. I remcommend this book to those that need a 'lift'.

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Summary: Dear "Very Disappointing & More Marketing" reviewers
Review: You both evidently do not get the point of this book. This book is about humanity and how we all need the words from others who have fallen from grace, (as Very Disappointing says)and who are still standing and generously living to tell us some words that may boost us as well. "More marketing" - guess you didn't know that all the proceeds from the book are going to St. Jude's Hospital. This has nothing to do with marketing. It has to do with being human. I think that the next time you decide to "judge a book by it's cover" - you should attempt to look beyond its cover and beyond your ego. Thanks, Marlo! I guess I need to purchase some blinders!

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Summary: Doing the right thing
Review: I think Marlo Thomas was doing the right thing in reminding people that at sometime, someplace, there were words spoken that made a difference in your life. I commend her and the people that shared their thoughts. To the people out there that think that Marlo and Phil need publicity, think again. The money for this book goes to St. Judes. Now please swallow your words. Thank you.

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Summary: A Great Book for the Guest Bedroom
Review: This is a great book to put on the guest bedroom nightstand. It does not require a cover-to-cover read.

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Summary: What a pathetic way to keep yourself in the public eye.
Review: ... Reading this exercise-in-self-promotion-masquerading-as-a-book, I begin to wonder about both Marlo Thomas and her husband: Are they that empty-headed - that shallow - that grasping - that craving of publicity --that they need to do stuff like this, just to stay in the public eye? Are they afraid to sit home at night, and actually read a book? Are they so-all consumed with *getting out there* *doing something* *making a difference* that's there's really nobody home, inside? This book is the very very very worst kind of celebrity/pr/trash trying to seem as if it's important; it's all the usual suspects - from the Dali Lama to every washed up movie-of-the-week actress - grasping at another chance to be in the spotlight. Shame on the publisher. Shame on the people who contributed. Marlo Thomas didn't write this book, didn't really contribute to it, and has nothing going on inside her head -- other than getting on the Today show to promote it, and showing off the results of her latest plastic surgery outings, in a cover picture that is both smug, and creepy.

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Summary: TO BRIGHTEN A DARK MOOD
Review: Reading through the reviews written before mine, I am struck by the fact that "A Reader" could easily be one person, rather than several from various locations, who has submitted a few different reviews. It is not that I find A Reader's opinions so difficult to swallow (obviously, not everyone can enjoy every book) but it is the anger inherent in those reviews which I find dismaying. They convey the attitude of "how dare Marlo Thomas have something published which I don't care to read!"

Frankly, I don't go out of my way to buy and read "self-help" books of inspiration through the words of others. It was this specific collection of people that made me gravitate towards it. There are so many people represented here whom I respect and/or am interested in: Cal Ripken Jr., Itzhak Perlman, Anna Quindlen, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, etc. I wanted to read the words and deeds that at one time or another helped them. No, I do not expect the effects to last my lifetime, I do not expect to be miraculously changed by the different stories, but it seems to me that at this particular moment in the world's history, perhaps reading of Uta Hagen's mother's opening night advice, Dennis Miller's thank you to Jay Leno or Senator John McCain's sense of patriotism will brighten a particularly dark mood. A suggestion: start with the wonderful "essay" by Mike Nichols.