Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

Kate DiCamillo

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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.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• 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.'

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Different
  • Change

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• 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.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• I never met a stripe I didn't like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Like
  • Never
  • Stripe

• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
  • Cool
  • Camera

• It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Political
  • Practice

• It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

  

  T.I.
  • Success
  • Saying
  • Without

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Human
  • Fate
  • Circumstances

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • World
  • Sleep

• If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • America
  • House
  • Lost

• Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the song before, so if the keyboard sound fits very well, it takes its artistic direction. We play the machines and the machines play us.

  

  Nicolas Godin Air
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Song

• Songs come when they wanna come and I'll work at it when I feel like working at it. There are some songwriters that write every day, and I'm definitely not one of those guys. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It's just kind of what I do.

  

  William Clark Green
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Things

• You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Fight
  • Radical

• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Writing
  • Understand
  • Writer