Kate DiCamillo Quotes

I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.

Kate DiCamillo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Jim Wallis

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I want to entertain.

Jessica Szohr

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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Johann Arndt

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Is everyone who uses a MacBook Pro a pro? No. It's just basically a faster Mac. And certainly, pros do use them, partly for that reason.

John Gruber

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There is a board game called Settlers of Catan. That is what I play. I am so embarrassed.

Andrew Luck

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I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.

Tom Kenny

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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

Michelle Bachelet

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One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

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After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new jobs: fancier title, higher pay, opportunities for advancement.

Chris Pavone

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Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

Clarence Clemons

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What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but also their body type and lifestyle outside the Olympic arena. Their diets are affected not only by the demands of their sports, but by everything else in their lives, things that are almost impossible to accurately measure and factor in.

Chuck Norris

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I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

Brooks Koepka

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