Kate DiCamillo Quotes
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
Garry Kasparov -
I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
