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Die derzeitigen und früheren Bewohner von Nulle wussten, wie abgründige Trauer den Geist zerfrisst.


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KATE VOEGELE I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
KATE VOEGELE My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these song...
KATE VOEGELE More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i...
KATE VOEGELE I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ...
KATE VOEGELE Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences ...
KATE VOEGELE I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
KATE DICAMILLO I hate to cook and love to eat.
KATE DICAMILLO I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
KATE DICAMILLO I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
KATE DICAMILLO I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay...
KATE DICAMILLO I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I w...
KATE DICAMILLO I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
KATE DICAMILLO I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s...
KATE DICAMILLO I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
KATE DICAMILLO I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
KATE DICAMILLO Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense ...
KATE DICAMILLO Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ...
KATE DICAMILLO It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch...
KATE DICAMILLO I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
KATE DICAMILLO My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f...
KATE DICAMILLO I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
KATE DICAMILLO We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele...
KATE CLINTON They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee...
KATE CLINTON My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, spo...
KATE CLINTON Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefo...
KATE CLINTON I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
KATE CLINTON I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it...
KATE CLINTON What goes for sex goes double for politics.
KATE CLINTON We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
KATE CLINTON I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want...
KATE CLINTON I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i...
KATE CLINTON As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential r...
KATE CLINTON Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le...
KATE CLINTON When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
KATE CLINTON I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times ...
KATE CLINTON A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,...
KATE CLINTON Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
KATE CLINTON I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sund...
KATE CLINTON I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
KATE CHRISTENSEN I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beauti...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in...
KATE CHRISTENSEN At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human bod...
KATE CHRISTENSEN My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, w...
KATE CHRISTENSEN The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
KATE CHRISTENSEN On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they...
KATE CHRISTENSEN