Kevin Henkes Quotes
You don't need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don't want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives.

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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
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TV is no longer the best alternative to boredom. To kids not old enough for Snapchat, music is the best alternative to boredom. For Snapchat users, it's the best alternative to boredom.
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Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
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You don't need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don't want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives.