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Kevin Henkes Quotes

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 27, 1960

Topics

Great World Traveled Done Young

I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.

Man Never Out Who Set Female

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together.

Day Together Yellow Me Legal She

A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.

Art World Think Attention Acting Go

A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.

Kind Fiction Existential Got Dealing

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Friends New Friends New Guy Who

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Robertson Davies

Love Learning Spring Believe Gift

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Best Opponent Your Means Negotiating

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Michel de Montaigne

Truth Forward Questions Debate Seek

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

Win Doing Guilty Person Anything

The first responsibility that we have to our veterans is to make sure those that need urgent care are getting care on time.

Time Responsibility Care Veterans

I'm a firm believer in karma. By doing good, good things eventually find you. I don't have an American Express Black Card, but I like to think that I would if I could fill it with karma points.

Good Good Things Black Think Karma

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

Leader Cool Green Legacy Career Now

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