Kate DiCamillo Quotes
There is no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, 'You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!'?
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
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I don't care how small the game. I want to win.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.
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The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.
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Would I have signed to Def Jam if I knew they was deaf? Nah.
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There is no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, 'You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!'?
