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'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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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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Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
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I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
