Kate DiCamillo Quotes
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
Zainab Salbi
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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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.
Jacob Epstein
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
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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.'
Ueli Gegenschatz
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
Karin Slaughter
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Nineteen is as alive as 40-plus. I can vividly remember 19 and how I saw the world.
Janet Fitch
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I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
E. L. Doctorow
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I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.
Cynthia Nixon
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo
