Cynthia Kadohata Quotes
'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
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'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience.
