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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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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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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Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.
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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
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Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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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.
