Kathi Appelt Quotes
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
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The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
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'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'
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I'm never happy with my face, my hair, I haven't really got any boobs and I'm not really that tall.
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'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!
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You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.
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An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
