Kate DiCamillo Quotes
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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I love singing as much as I love acting.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same time creating my own version thereof; in other words, the reality I present is a reality based upon what I choose to include in the frame and what I choose to leave out.
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With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
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I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.
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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
