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Kathryn Lasky Quotes

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1944

Topics

I Am Treat Details Real Characters

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler

God Day You Fall Seventy Rise

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

Responsibility Think American Real

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Life Humor Best Looking View Any

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

Best You Well Might Steal Writers

Congress did the right thing with Ebola. They funded us to protect Americans and keep us safer.

Congress Protect Right Keep Us Did

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

Love Experience Politics Love Is You

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

Crazy Opinion World Start Better

Some things make me emotional in a good way. When my son does well in school, I get real emotional because that's a testament to what I'm feeding him at home on a daily basis as far as knowledge goes. I wasn't so emotional until I had my first son.

Good Home Daily Son Knowledge Me

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Life Son Think You Career Movies

I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Opportunity Best Day Man Believe

My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy.

Father Mother Age Old Age Parents

Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Deborah Harkness

Time Thought Mystery Write Bored

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