Kate DiCamillo Quotes

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

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• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• 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
  • Merits

• I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Pilot

• 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

• I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

  

  Domhnall Gleeson

• When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • People
  • Family

• Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Clothes
  • Shopping
  • Go

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

  

  Kate DiCamillo