Kenneth Oppel Quotes
I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.
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I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.
