Kathi Appelt Quotes
I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
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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.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
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Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.
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'Twenty Thousand Hertz' investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop.
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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
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College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
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I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.
