Katherine Boo Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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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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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
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I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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I will sell all other things before JYSK. That's my baby, and you don't sell your baby.
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I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.
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I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.
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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
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If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.
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I'm not squeamish.
