Kate DiCamillo Quotes
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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Being down match point, it's just not fun.
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It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to create value and jobs for these United States.
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Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
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By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.
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I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person’s particular need is met, it’s the best leadership training you can have.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
