Kate DiCamillo Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
