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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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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Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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When I thought I was dying in rehab in 1994, 'I Won't back Down' was my mantra. It lifted my up out of the pain and made me fight through it. 'The Waiting'... summed up my life. We can't stand waiting, we rock 'n' roll men and women. Tom Petty's songs are like a great book that you revisit when you need help. His songs make me better.
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History, in Nietzsche’s view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men’s great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.
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I'm a really lucky guy, I have a good wardrobe of suits and things, and I have a wife that gives me a direction if I'm doing something wrong. I live a great life and I do what I love, which is wonderful.
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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.
