Kate DiCamillo Quotes
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
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The earliest religious feeling MacAllister could recall was being annoyed at Adam, because it was his fault that girls subsequently had to wear clothes.
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I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all!
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
