Kate DiCamillo Quotes
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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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 a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they're trying to fill by performing. I'm anxious to keep creating, but I'm not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
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I'm the youngest of three boys. Both of the older two are very heterosexual, football-watching, married, child-rearing, cornfed Midwestern guys.
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Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
