Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(

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• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Positive

• 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Think
  • inspirational
  • Sky

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Today
  • Society
  • Better

• I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Love
  • Couple
  • Born

• I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

  

  Ice T
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Gotta

• I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • City
  • My Life

• From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Love
  • Think
  • Day

• The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Act

• I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Good
  • Proud
  • Feel Good

• I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Live
  • Theater
  • Substitute

• My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Write
  • Orange

• Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Language
  • Body

• My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Business
  • Father
  • Bicycle

• Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.

  

  Bernice King
  • America
  • High
  • Tolerance

• People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

  

  Marion Marechal-Le Pen
  • People

• The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Lies
  • Distance
  • Mountain

• When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies.

  

  Walter Russell
  • Thinking
  • Healing
  • Profession

• What worried Roosevelt was the inability of ordinary people to see the danger of this proliferation of cogs and cylinders and coins in American life. The corrupt power of corporations was increasing at an alarming rate.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Danger
  • Worried
  • Roosevelt

• Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(

  

  Kate DiCamillo