Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.


Katherine Paterson

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I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I...
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We should celebrate how amazing our bodies are! We all have things that we like and dislike about ou...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops...
KATHERINE PARKINSON
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to ...
KATHERINE JENKINS
Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all ...
KATHERINE JENKINS
When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if...
KATHERINE BOO
I have actually five honorary degrees.
KATHERINE DUNHAM
We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but ...
KATHERINE JOHNSON
Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own m...
KATHERINE DUNHAM
I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more i...
KATHERINE DUNHAM
Great. Men affectionately attacked me with sticks to show their admiration.
KATHERINE PINE
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character develo...
KATHERINE WATERSTON
Justin Bieber is a lovely chap.
KATHERINE RYAN
I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I d...
KATHERINE JENKINS
A lazy smile reached his lips. “The mere sight of me shirtless takes your mind there? Good to know...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE
I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's q...
KATHERINE RYAN
I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminate...
KATHERINE HELMOND
Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.
KATHERINE PARKINSON
I talk to my mom about six times a day, and we constantly email in between that. People say that I&#...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER
Tu vois, Jo, cette petite étoile au bout de la casserole, elle est comme toi, si tu l'enlèves, la ...
PANCOL KATHERINE
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc...
KATHERINE DUNHAM
You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!
KATHERINE KELLY
A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and soc...
KATHERINE RYAN
A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have...
KATHERINE DUNHAM
I felt most proud on the success of the Apollo mission.
KATHERINE JOHNSON
The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but...
KATHERINE DUNN
I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone...
KATHERINE JENKINS
My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dan...
KATHERINE DUNN
Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
KATHERINE MCNAMARA
I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.
KATHERINE DUNN
I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.
KATHERINE HEIGL
Being depressed is not a beautiful tragedy - it's hell and it's agony. Posting photos of som...
KATHERINE LANGFORD
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.
KATHERINE RYAN
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression ...
KATHERINE DUNN
He stands there, facing the largest windows, touching the glass with the open palm of his hands, fee...
KATHERINE OWEN
My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will ne...
KATHERINE JENKINS
My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of...
KATHERINE DUNN
She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massin...
KATHERINE HOWE
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different po...
KATHERINE HOWE
But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.
KATHERINE HOWE
I just try to stick to clean foods, anything grilled like salmon, chicken, fish, brown rice, and veg...
KATHERINE WEBB