Kate DiCamillo Quotes

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Kate DiCamillo

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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.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • God
  • Catholic
  • Anymore

• Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Serious

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Work
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• 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.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Government
  • Revolution
  • West

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • People
  • Art
  • Write

• '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.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Die
  • Person
  • Should

• 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.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• 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.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• I myself am going to try to tone down some of my rhetoric, and I would invite my Democrat friends - and they are friends - to do likewise.

  

  Chris Collins
  • Friends

• I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • English
  • Canada
  • French

• Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK early 2008. i started reading it and couldn't help but cry a little bit. cause that person was really confused. and very lost. and as it went on, the person behind the pen seemed to get a little bit stronger.. that part felt good. it was the reminder that i needed that right now i'm as strong as ever. there really isn't a point to telling you all of this. except maybe i want to thank you. cause you are a constant reminder. that i'm not as lost as i once was.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Help
  • Reading
  • Reminder

• I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Reading
  • English
  • Training