Karen Hesse Quotes

Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

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• The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Country
  • Young
  • Heartless

• A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
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  • Power

• People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
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  • Before

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
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  • Today

• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Me
  • Film

• Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

  

  Yuvraj Singh
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  • Best
  • Thought

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
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• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

  

  R. D. Laing
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• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Think
  • Fall

• I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Think
  • You
  • Pop

• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

  

  Lamar Odom
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• Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Think
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• Nothing beats an 'Archers' fan for their levels of devotion. I think it's because it's radio, and you obviously conjure up an image of the character that is so powerful.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Act

• Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Different
  • Character

• We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Business
  • News
  • Gathering

• On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more positions to take, no certainties, no facts. Many people find this confusing about my films; they say I am hiding out behind irony. But from a cosmic viewpoint, it is eternally unimportant whether one lives or not.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hand

• Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

  

  Karen Hesse
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