Kathryn Stockett Quotes
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I think I need security.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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America is nation of people striving to make life better for themselves and for their families.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.
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I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.
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I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
