Kathi Appelt Quotes
We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am a children's author, and it's like they want to pat me on the head: 'Aw, isn't that sweet.'
Quotes to Explore
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
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I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
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I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
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We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am a children's author, and it's like they want to pat me on the head: 'Aw, isn't that sweet.'
