Kathryn Erskine Quotes
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
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A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.
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He Giovanni Ardini, Italian master-carver opened up a new vista for me of the quality of form, light, and colour contained in the Mediterranean conception of carving.
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You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
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I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.
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I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
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I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.
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I'm not really a computer guy. It's like recess. I'd rather be outside getting dirty in the sandbox.
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Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
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If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
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Because real love doesn’t have anything to do with perfection. Real love is what happens when everything isn’t perfect…and you love each other anyway.
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Pity those who don't feel anything at all
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We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
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Ignore and ignorance share the same root.
