Kate DiCamillo Quotes
That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.
Kate DiCamillo
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
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I was a dyslexic kid.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
Naveen Jain
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
D. A. Pennebaker
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
Irwin Thomas
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
Walter Kirn
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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
Adhir Kalyan
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
Tea Obreht
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There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.
Etel Adnan
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A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively for benefits from outside.
William Henry Chamberlin
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It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.
William H. Hastie
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That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.
Kate DiCamillo
