Katherine Paterson Quotes
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
Katherine Paterson
Quotes to Explore
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
Ian Mckellen
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
Vera Wang
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
Harlan Coben
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
Isaac Hayes
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Madeleine Albright
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After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.
Don Rickles
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At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
Muddy Waters
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This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading-the sum total of our experience.
Edward R. Murrow
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I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.
Katie Lowes
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Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
Katherine Paterson