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Kathi Appelt Quotes

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 6, 1954

Topics

Road Loved Nothing Abandoned Cat

I always think there's this thing, when you live in New York, like, this unspoken agreement between everyone who lives there, like, 'We're sticking this out. It's the hardest place to live, but it's the best city in the world, so we are all going to do this together.'

Jennifer Konner

Live Best Together New York City

I am a great motivator. I have struggles in my life, and the only way I can push through them is to motivate others. It really is quite selfish.

Life Great I Am Selfish Push I Can

The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.

Robert Griffin III

Day Beginning Think Stop Play Ball

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

Positive People Me Door Name Better

Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

Heart Fight Feel Sugar Way Been

I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

New York Back Country Play Living

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

Mother Brother Me Said She Writer

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

Work Day Me Year Every Day Down

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

Great Fire Feel Out Up Going

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

Journey Together Long You Play Why

I'm not ever going to retire. That's - that wouldn't be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi.

Aretha Franklin

Good Down Go Nothing Retire Going

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

Anthony Horowitz

Perfect She Just Books Read He

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