Katherine Paterson Quotes
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
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You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.
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For me, it's very important that the people I'm working with are feeling happy.
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Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
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Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.
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The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.
