Katherine Paterson Quotes

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

Katherine Paterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 31, 1932

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The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

Jill Abramson

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You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

John Hawkes

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Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Robert Kiyosaki

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My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

Robert Osborne

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IRAs are intended for retirement.

Max Baucus

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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Aneurin Bevan

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Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Michael A. Stackpole

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We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.

John Sulston

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Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

Jon Anderson

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My rookie year, I was very immature.

Dennis Rodman

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Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

Arlen Specter

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To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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