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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I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
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Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.
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Why can't I just be a running back?
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.
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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.
