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.
Paris Hilton -
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.
Naval Ravikant -
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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.
Dana Goodyear -
As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
Natalie Gulbis -
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
Gary Cole
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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.
Takeshi Kitano -
It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
Gary Neville -
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?
Famke Janssen -
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.
Barbara Kruger -
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
Rachel Kushner
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
W. C. Fields -
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius -
I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
Calvin Johnson -
When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
Adam Jones -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You breathe better when you're rich.
Fernando Pessoa -
Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
Patrick Lencioni -
The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
The people who run the show in the NBA don't know anything about Islam. I think that may also be why some people are against me personally-because I am a Muslim. It's the same way people can be against you because of the color of your skin. They don't look past these things. But it always depends on the individual.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
Zachary Taylor -
Even a prince may be a fool
Katherine Paterson