Katherine Paterson Quotes
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
Quotes to Explore
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.
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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
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Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
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I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-changing, but it's a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at my leisure, someday.
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In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
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Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
