K. A. Applegate Quotes
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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There's no regrets for me.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
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I have always been attracted to faces that are different.
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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
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I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?
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The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
