Katherine Paterson Quotes
All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
