Kathi Appelt Quotes

Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.

Kathi Appelt

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Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.

Joe Morton

BusinessSurviveBelieveNeedOrder

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

LoveLove IsMeditationFlowering

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Jerzy Kosinski

LifeLonelinessWriterConditions

How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can't necessarily give the people we love what they need?

Ann Packer

LovePeopleNowQuestionNeedGive

For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.

Jean Dujardin

MeLovedNowWantMoviesSilent

I have so much to thank reality TV for.

Sia

RealityReality TVMuchTVThank

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Roland Joffe

FunnyHomeSadStupidYouPerson

Winter makes me want to rage.

Liza Lapira

WinterMeWantRageMakes

When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.

Jules Verne

FearMoneyManYouWillNeed

Dealers always like to sell chairs in sets of four, six, or eight. And they charge a premium for supplying the whole set. Individual chairs, though, go for much lower prices, and if you carry around a reference photo of the chairs you want, you may be able to build up a cut-price collection, chair by chair.

Judith Miller

ChairYouGoWantBuildIndividual

I'm thinking about starting a solo project. But it will feature Tyler on all the songs. We'll call it something like 'Two Music Boys.'

Josh Dun

MusicThinkingWillProjectStarting

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

Jose Altuve

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