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I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.


Douglas Kennedy

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CAROLINE KENNEDY Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; ...
KATHLEEN KENNEDY It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portio...
ROBERT KENNEDY Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligatio...
ROBERT KENNEDY If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
JACKIE KENNEDY One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
JACKIE KENNEDY When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and...
ROSE KENNEDY Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.
MARK KENNEDY Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past...
CAROLINE KENNEDY One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily a...
ROBERT KENNEDY I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di...
CAROLINE KENNEDY In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always re...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
CAROLINE KENNEDY When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
CAROLINE KENNEDY I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Change isn't easy, it takes time.
CAROLINE KENNEDY You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little b...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and la...
CAROLINE KENNEDY To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut i...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public ser...
CAROLINE KENNEDY After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I fel...
CAROLINE KENNEDY John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not ...
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