Kathryn Stockett Quotes

Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.

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• It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Single
  • Day
  • Never

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Risk
  • Said

• I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Alone

• I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Want
  • Write
  • Dialogue

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Man
  • Enjoy

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Words

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.

  

  James Altucher
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Rest

• I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

  

  Patti LaBelle
  • Women
  • Trying

• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Punishment
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• Your white uniform as a black domestic was your ticket anywhere in town.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Black