Katherine Paterson Quotes
Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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I want to work with great directors and tell great stories - storytelling is the one great love of my life, and it means so much, and we have the ability to change the world by telling stories, and I want to keep doing that.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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'Raw sex is the last thing you are going to encounter in a Jane Austen woman.'
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I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.
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If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
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Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.
