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Kate DiCamillo Quotes

How do I feel when I look back at prior work? Hmmm. I think, 'I tried to do the best I could do. It's not perfect. It will never be perfect.' And then I think, 'I want to try again.'

Kate DiCamillo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1964

Topics

Work Best Not Perfect Think Look

The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn't take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, 'Well, if they're offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.'

John McEnroe

Best Money Me Wrong Play Go

I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the money. Then I was fortunate enough to become Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. At the time, I thought I'd make a couple of records and get back to painting. It never dawned on me that I'd be 64 years old and still making music.

John Mellencamp

Music Time Art Money New York Me

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

Jean Renoir

Life Director Pieces Only Again He

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

Steve Burke

Good Working Together Together Job

I love eating. Unfortunately, I have to be really determined and control my foodie temptations. That is the only thing I don't like about being an actress; the constant need to check my weight. Otherwise, I love my job!

Sonam Kapoor

Love Job Control Eating Need Check

Literally, my job is I make socks. That's all I do.

Rob Kardashian

Job Socks Make Literally

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

Monica Bellucci

Work Love Relationship Someone You

Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we can give. And it's not a gift we often give to children. We expect it of them, but we don't necessarily give it back.

Jason Reynolds

Gratitude Children Gift Back Expect

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'

Jonah Hill

Heart Me Writing Acting First Film

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

Alicia Silverstone

Generation Whom TV I Came Came

Human beings understand too much.

Seung Sahn

Too Much Understand Human Much Too

I would say that the money that was invested in me by Warwickshire Education Authority, which they did for five years, has been repaid a hundred times over. I have paid a lot more back to them in tax than they paid in support to me, but they helped me on my way - they launched me; they got me going.

Tim Pigott-Smith

Education Money Support Me Back Tax