Kate DiCamillo Quotes
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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The relationships I've had with my wife and children are what mean the most to me.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
