K. A. Applegate Quotes

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

K. A. Applegate

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 9, 1956

Topics

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There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

Jimmy Smits

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Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile... Hate is too big a burden to bear.

John Lewis

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There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

Robert Caro

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As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Mary J. Blige

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My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.

Martina McBride

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My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.

Michelle Magorian

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There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the extraordinary wealth that Mexico produces but does not share in an equitable and democratic way.

Denise Dresser

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I've had high-powered publicists in my career, and I've had publicists when they've had no power. I've run the gamut.

Debi Mazar

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I ran into Ben McKenzie a couple of times on the streets of L.A., and we hung out one time, and that's it.

Chris Carmack

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I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

Christina Ricci

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

Philip Gibbs

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