Kate DiCamillo Quotes

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which is bring everybody together in the same room.

Kate DiCamillo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

Jesse Eisenberg

WorkGreatTravelPrivilegeGet

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

John Banville

ThinkWriterThanI ThinkLess

My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.

Andie MacDowell

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I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.

Max Winkler

GoodThoughtSexyShortFriends

Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was in many American vaccines until 2003. It was removed from many of the pediatric vaccines, but it was put in the flu vaccine, which is now given to 53 million Americans.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

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Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

John Stossel

FreedomTrustLearnBadAuthority

Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.

Amanda de Cadenet

FreedomDayCakeEvery DayEatAble

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

Tony McCoy

FearPastHappyDriveEndYou

I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too.

Rob Van Dam

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It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

Diane Abbott

ChildLonelyUpOwnYourVery

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

Dexter Fletcher

CharacterAlwaysThroughUpYour

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

Autre Ne Veut

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