Katherine Paterson Quotes
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
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There comes a point in any project where you have to say - whether you like or understand the character, or the whole play for that matter - 'I believe!'
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.
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I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.
