Katherine Paterson Quotes
If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.
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There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.
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I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.
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As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.
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Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.
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If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
