Katherine Paterson Quotes
It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.
Katherine Paterson
Quotes to Explore
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
Nancy Greene
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
Mahesh Babu
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
Ioan Gruffudd
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
Magdi Yacoub
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
Rafael Correa
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
Famke Janssen
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
T. C. Boyle
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
Rachel Sklar
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
Sam Heughan
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The Russians and the Chinese will use their veto to make sure that there is an alphabet soup of organizations running Kosovo.
Paul Williams
The Temptations
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
Pierre Bonnard
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I wake up sometimes, and I have this limp, and I'm, like, What if someone chases me, and it's on a bad-knee day? I need to be able to get away.
Bobby Cannavale
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In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
John Sulston
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It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.
Katherine Paterson
