Kate DiCamillo Quotes
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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The world needs some help.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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Integrity matters. What our fans think matters.
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Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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Look, in my personal issues I'm very private. I would like to make clear that all the matters of my family, friends, my love life, is something that is for me, and I also prefer people to invent. It amuses me a lot when I read all the things they invent.4
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I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
