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• Those who saw Kite Runner loved the film, for the most part, people seemed to really like the film.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Saws, Film

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Pete Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

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• I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Monday, Doctors

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• Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

  Keith Henson

  Giving, Feelings, Attention

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• I get daily e-mails from Afghans who thank me for writing this book [The Kite Runner], as they feel a slice of their story has been told by one of their own. So, for the most part, I have been overwhelmed with the kindness of my fellow Afghans.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Kindness, Book, Writing

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

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• Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

  Sid Fleischman

  Wall, Reality, Sky

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• And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Thinking, Knitting Needles

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House

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• And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wind, Let It Go, Nasty

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “The Rainbow”, p.356, OUP Oxford

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• By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Successful, Found

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Thinking, Rope

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• Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Air, Tails, Sugar

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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• Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Squares, Feet, Used

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• I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Long, Storm, Lines

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.

  Emily M. Danforth

  Marijuana, Scent, Embrace

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• [Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Unique, Sun

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com.

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• What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

  Bill Gates

  Energy, Generations, Done

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Children, Spring, Grief

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Flying, Feelings, Machines

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• I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Stories, Graphic Novels, Retelling

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Issues

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• There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. I was entirely absorbed in that world as I wrote the book [The Kite Runner] and to see the final page of that manuscript whir out of the printer was a very special feeling indeed.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Writing, Romance

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Songs from Books”, p.206, tredition

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• The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.

  Coventry Patmore

  Mean, Men, Sky

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

  John Milton

  War, Fighting, Air

  John Milton (1870). “Britain Under Trojan, Roman, Saxon Rule”, p.120

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• California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

  S. E. Hinton

  Beautiful, Believe, Kids

  S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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• Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.

  China Mieville

  Past, Kraken, Apples

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