Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Despereaux did not know it, but he would need, very soon, to be brave himself.

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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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• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  

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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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• Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

  

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• You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.

  

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• I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

  

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• Despereaux did not know it, but he would need, very soon, to be brave himself.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Brave