Kathryn Stockett Quotes
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
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I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.
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Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.
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In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.
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The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
