There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.
Kate Chopin
Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS She did not think it was love. She did not think it was love when she felt a curious ache and anxiet... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN I guess when she did what she did, she did not realize what we were going to think could of happened... MARIA PARTON Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ... MARIE RUTKOSKI There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, midd... ELIZABETH STROUT The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life s... JOHN GREEN If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are... AHMED ALI ANJUM She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, ye... JERRY SPINELLI I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she ... CHARLIZE THERON She almost never left her bedroom, and when she did she was nude or wearing a silk tunic with nothin... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She did not care where he was or how she was going to find him, all she knew is the reward would be ... VIRGINIA ALISON Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had... LEO TOLSTOY When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. Th... MELINA MARCHETTA It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they we... ÉMILE ZOLA there were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thou... SAMANTHA YOUNG With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exh... KHALED HOSSEINI Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to... ANNA GODBERSEN When I saw the Chinese newspapers reporting her ?ear-pulling? claims, I was shocked as she did not m... DATUK MICHAEL CHONG I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo... CONSTANCE WU It seems like she grew up speaking Yiddish. It's really part of her life, like if she did not do thi... HANKUS NETSKY When your mom named you, she did not know how accurate she was. DAVE THOMPSON He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there mi... MARGARET MITCHELL Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Not everyone was healed during these services. She would tell those who looked to her for a healing ... MARGO MONG It seems like every shot she makes is a big one for us. She did what she had to do when we needed he... CRYSTAL KELLY When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL When that e-mail was sent I realized not only were these kids homeless but they did not have plays t... AUBREY IRELAND If she wins or loses, I'm extra motivated either way. When she wins, I definitely want to be like he... VENUS WILLIAMS She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go? COURTNEY SUMMERS She was confused. One of the questions she had was, 'Did someone go to jail for it?' It hurt to tell... CONNIE TRUJILLO I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a blac... SALMA HAYEK She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In ... NEVIL SHUTE She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there... HARPER LEE Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted t... MAUD HART LOVELACE You know one day, you're going to look back on these days. And everyone you went to high school with... DAVE MATTHES But the truth is, I want to be some woman's work boots, not her high heels." "Work boots?" What... ERIN MCCARTHY Kate did well early, when we were in the ballgame. Once we got out of it, she got frustrated. BOB COOLEN While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." ... DONNA LYNN HOPE Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko, Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy..... .....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai, K... VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin... PETER S. BEAGLE It's so hard to go from having a daughter to seeing her dead. It's hard to mourn or grieve when you'... DONNA MAY It was simply that she was only fully alive when she devoted herself to her singular ability to draw... TOVE JANSSON I am not glad she is dead, but I am not sorry she is gone. CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE Mike had a wife and her name was Terri. She came before me, and I knew that. That was just that. Not... JODI SCHIAVO She was nine when she came in, and we had her several months. Her home life was not the best. She wa... BRENDA WEBB The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, ... TERRY PRATCHETT Asha Greyjoy did not intend to be taken alive. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her ha... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, su... STEPHENIE MEYER They said she could not do it. But she didn’t listen so when she did it. And when they stood in aw... TONI SORENSON Yet, when we talked, when we were together, she seemed so familiar. Seemed to know who I was, where ... JULIE ANNE PETERS Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin... ANNETTE BENING She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. ELIZABETH EDWARDS She was really encouraging and she went out of her way to tell you, 'Good job' when you did a good j... ANDEE WHITAKER Everything she did, she made it seem like it was the first time. HELEN SONNER Did she know, could she know what it meant to him when she turned to him, when she opened herself to... J.D. ROBB She had been waiting for someone to notice her, like, really notice her. She felt that that was the ... ROSE FALL When you say sorry to someone, do not swear on what you did and why you did, i.e. to say, you do not... APURVA GAGLANI When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy SOTONYE ANGA If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ... THOMAS HARDY Aside from helping people with their homework, or anything else they needed, she really didn't know ... ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, s... STEPHEN KING When I met her in Hong Kong I was very touched by how she welcomed the eastern culture to be her own... JOYCE MA She raised her head again. "Aren't you supposed to come over all manly man and forbid the little lad... DANA STABENOW At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailo... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It... DOUGLAS KIRKLAND Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she ke... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Makosi is an adult who, like any other, should be allowed to make her own decisions as she did when ... MAKOSI MUSAMBASI There was this tendency to drift. And yet when she thought about it, what did she really want to d... EDWARD ABBEY She came out of jail not knowing what she would be facing, not knowing what awaited her. She did not... SYLVIE BORDELAIS She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was fee... KEVIN BROCKMEIER Somehow, when she was 13, I convinced her parents to let us take her on the road trips. All the rest... DICK CATRI After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip in... MARY BALOGH Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think ... SHERRY THOMAS She had the chance to protect Kelsey. Kelsey could still be alive if she had done her job as a paren... KATHIE BRIGGS It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely r... VAL MCDERMID I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her ... JAMES JOYCE To be, or not to be: what a question! E.A. BUCCHIANERI He took her like He took my mother. To torment me! To kill me and keep me alive to live dead! She di... LUCIAN BANE The fall caused a whip-lash injury and she was immobilized. It was very hard for her to walk, and wh... JIM LINK Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,... PAUL BOWLES The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact,... GAIL CARRIGER Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing." Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured ... HILARY THAYER HAMANN They did really adventurous traveling together. She talked about that. She talked about what a great... ANNETTE BENING On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did ... MARY STUART MASTERSON She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... IAN MCEWAN When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window whe... LEIGH BARDUGO She was irritated, briefly, by the thought that she might be becoming more mature. Why should she be... SOPHIE HANNAH
More Kate Chopin
So the storm passed and every one was happy. KATE CHOPIN In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti... KATE CHOPIN The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet... KATE CHOPIN Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of... KATE CHOPIN When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills. KATE CHOPIN But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce... KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac... KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the... KATE CHOPIN A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ... KATE CHOPIN It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ... KATE CHOPIN She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s... KATE CHOPIN There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. KATE CHOPIN It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire s... KATE CHOPIN I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised,... KATE CHOPIN She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the cou... KATE CHOPIN He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from ... KATE CHOPIN The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in it... KATE CHOPIN ...when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wing... KATE CHOPIN The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. KATE CHOPIN She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. KATE CHOPIN The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. KATE CHOPIN The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its... KATE CHOPIN And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul . . . the brave soul. The soul... KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac... KATE CHOPIN He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from ... KATE CHOPIN I love you. Good-by--because I love you. KATE CHOPIN I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood. KATE CHOPIN She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear. KATE CHOPIN She had resolved to never take another step backward. KATE CHOPIN The morning was full of sunlight and hope. KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the... KATE CHOPIN The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies KATE CHOPIN For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a c... KATE CHOPIN She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woma... KATE CHOPIN Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions... KATE CHOPIN She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna h... KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of th... KATE CHOPIN The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste... KATE CHOPIN “She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna ... KATE CHOPIN …there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women b... KATE CHOPIN Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick pray... KATE CHOPIN ...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery. KATE CHOPIN He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herse... KATE CHOPIN There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the m... KATE CHOPIN Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes,... CHOPIN Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace. FREDERIC CHOPIN There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button. DANIEL CHOPIN Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. FREDERIC CHOPIN Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button. DAN CHOPIN I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in in... FREDERIC CHOPIN Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this wo... FREDERIC CHOPIN Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano! FREDERIC CHOPIN Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, i... FREDERIC CHOPIN As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days. FREDERIC CHOPIN Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly. FREDERIC CHOPIN Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy... FREDERIC CHOPIN I shall create a new world for myself. FREDERIC CHOPIN Dying of tuberculosis: The earth is suffocating.... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't ... FREDERIC CHOPIN Anthony Miranda: Independent Melodic Velocities. FREDERIC CHOPIN Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button DAN CHOPIN Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I o... FRéDéRIC CHOPIN Confusion is a continuous fight with self-knowledge, prejudice and insecurity. KATE I have an insane calling to be where i'm not, and a screaming urge to get out of here. There's no ro... KATE That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b... KATE If you are wondering why some people don't want to talk to you anymore, it could be that they actual... KATE Amazing how you can fake you're way through the day, by looking at the clock, and work untill it's t... KATE The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together! KATE More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song.
It shouldn't be this hard, and it s... KATE Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting. KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive...
But the thou... KATE Why do people get back in the box ?,
when deep down inside there isn't room enough.
And even though ... KATE Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis... KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
May... KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a... KATE Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes... KATE Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things.
But whe... KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
A billion ... KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think.... KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone... KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.......
Now I know what I did wrong all the ti... KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther... KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep. KATE Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few.. KATE Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ... KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast
Why is it impossible to make those silent moments last... KATE I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun,
but it looks like I have to settle for less again. KATE You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ... KATE If water would be running up,
would it wash away the spots,
underneath the places, where we usually ... KATE No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t... KATE Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up. LAUREN KATE With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and... KATE FORSYTH I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like... KATE MOSS Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. KATE MIDDLETON I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ... KATE KLISE Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi... KATE ATKINSON Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex... KATE GRENVILLE I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st... KATE WINSLET Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't tu... KATE WINSLET Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils tha... KATE WINSLET I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman. KATE WINSLET I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.' KATE WINSLET Life is short, and it is here to be lived. KATE WINSLET I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's... KATE WINSLET Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother... KATE WINSLET I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and d... KATE WINSLET I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to... KATE WINSLET Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes. KATE WINSLET Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. KATE WINSLET Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to... KATE WINSLET You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things. KATE WINSLET What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life... KATE WINSLET I do have impossibly high standards. KATE WINSLET Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all ... KATE WINSLET Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated. KATE WINSLET It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth. KATE WINSLET The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow. KATE WINSLET British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho... KATE WILLIAMS People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh... KATE WILLIAMS When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box... KATE WILLIAMS I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors. KATE WILLIAMS One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think... KATE WILLIAMS I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'... KATE WILLIAMS Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the... KATE WILLIAMS I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women... KATE WILLIAMS The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri... KATE WILLIAMS Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history... KATE WILLIAMS I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his... KATE WILLIAMS Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth... KATE WILLIAMS The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t... KATE WILLIAMS Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa... KATE WILLIAMS I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha... KATE WILLIAMS Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a... KATE WILLIAMS Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow... KATE WILLIAMS I like boxes because of the secrets they hide. KATE WILLIAMS The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or ... KATE WILLIAMS I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016... KATE WILLIAMS Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m... KATE WILLIAMS Acting was all I ever really wanted to do. KATE WALSH For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, ... KATE WALSH Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if ... KATE WALSH I struggle with control. KATE WALSH I loved campaigning for Obama. KATE WALSH My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. KATE WALSH I still like to make crank calls. KATE WALSH I would definitely love to be a parent. KATE WALSH No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g... KATE WALSH There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture. KATE WALSH I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess. KATE WALSH I've done every diet there is. KATE WALSH Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes. KATE WALSH I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try! KATE WALSH You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you. KATE WALSH I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc... KATE WALSH I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead. KATE WALSH I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes. KATE WALSH I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day. KATE WALSH People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from... KATE WALSH I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice. KATE WALSH I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine. KATE WALSH I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor... KATE WALSH I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails. KATE WALSH I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of... KATE VOEGELE I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations.... KATE VOEGELE I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb... 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