Katharine Sergeant Angell White Quotes
With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.
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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 played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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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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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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Yes, I'm planning to go out again next summer, on concert tour, as a result of the success of the book and the CDs.
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With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.
