Gary T. DiCamillo quote: "I am particularly pleased that all of the members of our bank group agreed to remain lenders to Polaroid and support our strategic plan of improving profitability by successfully introducing innovative new products into the marketplace."

Our focus is to generate strong positive cash flow and invest in specific market opportunities, such...
GARY T. DICAMILLO

Today's announcement puts Polaroid on a more solid footing to enter 1999 poised for profitable growt...
GARY T. DICAMILLO

These products all draw on Polaroid's heritage for innovation, ease-of-use, fun and immediacy.
GARY DICAMILLO

The next 12 months will be unmatched in Polaroid history for number and breadth of new products comi...
GARY DICAMILLO

August retail results were up in both cameras and film. In addition, the company continues to make p...
GARY DICAMILLO

We remain on plan to begin rolling out a number of new products, including our instant single-use ca...
GARY DICAMILLO

As we anticipated, the strong U.S. dollar and the Asian economic crisis had a negative impact. What ...
GARY DICAMILLO

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

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
KATE DICAMILLO

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a stor...
KATE DICAMILLO

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love w...
KATE DICAMILLO

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He k...
KATE DICAMILLO

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they...
KATE DICAMILLO

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you wri...
KATE DICAMILLO

And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, ...
KATE DICAMILLO

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, wh...
KATE DICAMILLO

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.
KATE DICAMILLO

My favorite six letter word is
always
because it promises
so much.

My favo...
KATE DICAMILLO

Even though various groups hold very different attitudes, it's important to all sides. It's an issue...
MARK DICAMILLO

When all is said and done, there's no Democrat on the horizon who's the odds-on favorite and there a...
MARK DICAMILLO

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.
KATE DICAMILLO

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.
KATE DICAMILLO

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.

Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the ...
KATE DICAMILLO

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. <...
KATE DICAMILLO

As time passes, there is a greater acceptance of gay and lesbian rights and greater support of anti-...
MARK DICAMILLO

Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat i...
KATE DICAMILLO

There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.
KATE DICAMILLO

(Brown) still remains among the top tier of personalities in California in terms of name recognition...
MARK DICAMILLO

Many voters are reappraising Schwarzenegger. They're a little puzzled because they're not sure which...
MARK DICAMILLO

The thing that's most striking to me is the impact that Schwarzenegger himself is having on his own ...
MARK DICAMILLO

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)
KATE DICAMILLO

Nothing
would be
easier without
you,
because you
are
everything,
KATE DICAMILLO

Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart...
KATE DICAMILLO

At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not bein...
KATE DICAMILLO

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.
KATE DICAMILLO

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.
KATE DICAMILLO

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phras...
KATE DICAMILLO

Despereaux," she whispered.
And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!"
Reader, nothing is swee...
KATE DICAMILLO

But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said,
"I forgive you,...
KATE DICAMILLO

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
KATE DICAMILLO

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear re...
KATE DICAMILLO

He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that...
KATE DICAMILLO

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, alwa...
KATE DICAMILLO

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make ...
KATE DICAMILLO

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty...
KATE DICAMILLO

Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thi...
KATE DICAMILLO

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Despereaux looked at his father, at his grey-streaked fur and trembling whiskers and his front paws ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess...
KATE DICAMILLO

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery.
He admired his own defiance.
And then, reader, he ...
KATE DICAMILLO

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? O...
KATE DICAMILLO

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and y...
KATE DICAMILLO

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.
KATE DICAMILLO

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is...
KATE DICAMILLO

This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, ...
KATE DICAMILLO

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
KATE DICAMILLO

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mo...
KATE DICAMILLO

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almo...
KATE DICAMILLO

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best,...
KATE DICAMILLO

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
KATE DICAMILLO

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
KATE DICAMILLO

He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing i...
KATE DICAMILLO

What you see is kind of a balanced assessment. There are some policy positions where some voters are...
MARK DICAMILLO

He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.
KATE DICAMILLO

It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.
KATE DICAMILLO

So many miracles have not yet happened.
KATE DICAMILLO

There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to cha...
KATE DICAMILLO

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.
KATE DICAMILLO

Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And ...
KATE DICAMILLO

I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
T-PAIN

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
T-PAIN

Most geniuses are weird.
T-PAIN

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ...
T-PAIN

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or w...
T-PAIN

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r...
T-PAIN

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go giv...
T-PAIN

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
T-PAIN

I just keep my cars to myself.
T-PAIN

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same ti...
T-PAIN

Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t...
T-PAIN

The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
T-PAIN

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
T-PAIN

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
T-PAIN

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
T-PAIN

I've got to be sensible sometimes.
T-PAIN

I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.
MR. T

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is...
ICE T

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h...
ICE T

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
ICE T

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
ICE T

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot...
ICE T

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too ma...
ICE T

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
ICE T

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the ...
ICE T

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say...
ICE T

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to yo...
ICE T

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi...
ICE T

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
ICE T

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
ICE T

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,&...
ICE T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders...
ICE T

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be consider...
ICE T

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the ...
ICE T

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in th...
MR. T

I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the...
T-PAIN

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th...
T-PAIN

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
T-PAIN

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don...
T-PAIN

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca...
T-PAIN

I write my music.
T-PAIN

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
T-PAIN

I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.'
T-PAIN

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
T-PAIN

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to...
T-PAIN

I do YouTube my cars a lot.
T-PAIN

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, s...
T-PAIN

I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to s...
T-PAIN

Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
T-PAIN

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was...
T-PAIN

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-PAIN

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.
T-PAIN

You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, ...
T-PAIN

Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that befo...
T-PAIN

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who p...
T-PAIN

'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
T-PAIN

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.
MR. T

The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the ...
JAY T

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
ICE T

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or...
MR. T

My mood board says that there should be a G.O.O.D. Music festival. Why not? Like, we haven't - I...
PUSHA T

Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you kn...
ICE T

I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
T-PAIN

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!
MR. T

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you w...
ICE T

I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.
MR. T

Diet food is for lazy people.
ICE-T

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pr...
MR. T

A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of ...
PUSHA T

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the peop...
MR. T

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.
MR. T

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
ICE T

You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T...
MR. T

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I...
ICE T

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jac...
ICE T

I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we al...
ICE T

It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.
ICE T.

Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.
PUSHA T

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
ICE T

My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi...
PUSHA T

I feel like my lyrics are just dark and scathing. I feel like the lyrics on 'Darkest Before Dawn...
PUSHA T

Gravity is my best friend. Gravity keeps me and my family together.
LEANNE T.

When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these ...
PUSHA T

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps...
ICE T

I don't even know how to think about running out of things to talk about. Certain things are ine...
PUSHA T

I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a ta...
PUSHA T

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,...
MR. T

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
ICE T

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
ICE T

Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.
MR. T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion...
ICE T

I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from ...
AZRA T.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone...
MR. T

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the rad...
ICE T

He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerfu...
T. MOUNTEBANK

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - rea...
MR. T

I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ...
PUSHA T

Time never changes things..It only give us the space to change it.
RAMANATHAN T

Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.
ICE-T

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm st...
ICE T

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
MR. T

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's...
MR. T

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear w...
ICE T

Love is always the reason to go on with life. Love is the answer to all the problems.
SAKTHIVEL T

I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,'...
ICE T

You can think about killing yourself a thousand times a day and each time it gets just a little bit ...
T DOGMAN

The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!
T. GILLING

I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be...
PUSHA T

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading...
MR. T

Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T...
T. REAL

I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me...
T. MOUNTEBANK

I am particularly pleased that all of the members of our bank group agreed to remain lenders to Polaroid and support our strategic plan of improving profitability by successfully introducing innovative new products into the marketplace.

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I am particularly pleased that all of the members of our bank group agreed to remain lenders to Polaroid and support our strategic plan of improving profitability by successfully introducing innovative new products into the marketplace.

Gary T. DiCamillo

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