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Kathryn Stockett Quotes

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

Kathryn Stockett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Life Beautiful Mirror Smart Parents

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.

Myself Responsibility People Eye Way

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

Joey Lauren Adams

Good Women Hard Get Parts

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good.

Michael Hutchence

Good Think Someone You Off I Think

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.

Power Make It Happen Want Way Write

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.

Gay Person First Met Ever Surely

'Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.

Think Copy Awards Magazine Show Far

The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want to go to a concert to see them in the flesh and get the album on vinyl and be a part of everything. That's what I'm about.

Music Enjoy You Artist Understand

Truthfully, the process of making 22 episodes of television a year is not very pleasant.

Process Year Television Pleasant

'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.

Jonathan Tropper

Movies Kind Hand Try Write Pretty

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Bad Create Goodness Done Will Way

Wes Anderson is a perfectionist, so you have to just be ready to try it this way, try it this way, try it that way, and then try it this way. And then, once you think you've got it all and it's done, then you're going to be called back in two or three months so you can try it that way and try it this way. You've got to give him all of it.

Courtney B. Vance

Think You Back Ready Done Three

I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.

Love Hate Moving On Negative Energy

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