Kathryn Erskine Quotes
Empathy isn't as hard as it sounds because people have a lot of the same feelings. And it helps to understand other people because then you can actually care about them sometimes. And help them. And have a friend.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.
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I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.
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People get really nuts around cars. They get angry at cars, they get angry at their car, they get angry at people driving in cars; there's something really comical about that, about automobiles.
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Empathy isn't as hard as it sounds because people have a lot of the same feelings. And it helps to understand other people because then you can actually care about them sometimes. And help them. And have a friend.
