K. A. Applegate Quotes
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
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Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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This is a crucial meeting for the future of the European Union.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
