Katherine Paterson Quotes
I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.
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You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?
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Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.
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I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.
