Kate DiCamillo Quotes
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.
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Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
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In India, women are still the primary caregivers. Whether it be for children, whether it be for old people or sick people, you are the primary caregiver. No matter what position you are in.
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Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
