Katherine Paterson Quotes
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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The temple of art is built in words.
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What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the international swag?
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When I go into a room to write, it's like I'm not trying to say, 'I need to write a song that sounds like Eric Church or Jason Aldean.' I just try to get the best song that's in the room that day. Whatever style or sound that may be, I'm not afraid to attack it at that angle.
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While domestically the president may be able to somewhat reshape his/her image through defining moments and actions, this is far less feasible internationally.
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Even a prince may be a fool
