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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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.
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One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.
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When you audition for 'Quantico,' they have the academy application manual and maps of the base in the waiting room. So right from the start, they have you doing research, which I thought was cool.
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Honestly, I'd rather hug than shake hands. I don't know where those hands have been!
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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.
