Kate DiCamillo Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.
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You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
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Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.
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You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.
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I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.
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Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.
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Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.
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Despereaux did not know it, but he would need, very soon, to be brave himself.
