Kites Quotes - Page 5

• The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Plot, Stories

  "Interview: Khaled Hosseini". Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November 2003.

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• There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Home, Air, Smell

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

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• For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.

  Marc Forster

  Past, Guy, Runners

  "An Interview With “The Kite Runner” Director Marc Forster". Interview with Jacob Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

  Jeff Bridges

  Wife, Strings, Let Me Go

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• I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Islamic, Sun, Splendid

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• Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Wise, Sight, Imagination

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• Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor."

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Doctors, Flying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.

  Rick Riordan

  Glowing, Chickens, Sadie

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• You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people, particularly if they like things the way they are - meaning, if their reactions are very simple.  The reason most people behave badly or poorly is because they only understand simple things.

  Jacque Fresco

  Simple, People, Way

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• We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret
  perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Wings, Praying

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Love Is, Two

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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• [I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Russia, Europe

  Samuel Putnam Waldo, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1823). “Biographical sketches of distinguished American naval heroes in the war of the revolution, between the American Republic and the Kingdom of Great Britain: comprising sketches of Com. Nicholas Biddle, Com. John Paul Jones, Com. Edward Preble, and Com. Alexander Murray. With incidental allusions to other distinguished characters ...”, p.381

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• I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Moving, Air, Feet

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• As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people; this being the means which they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them which they themselves pay to all above them.

  Henry Fielding

  Mean, People, Bird

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• How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of orphans on Mumbai after seeing that film? The same thing with the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Mumbai, Plight

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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• I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].

  Khaled Hosseini

  Believe, Struggle, Journey

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

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• In March of 2001, I revisited the short story, and found that thought it did not work well as a short story, it might work much better as a longer one. The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Expansion, Stories, Might

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

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• The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Two, Mind, Mail

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

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• Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Black And White, Color, Stories

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

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• The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Expansion, Stories, Novel

  "Geekdad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of the Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com.

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• There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Woven, Fiction, Elements

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

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• I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the winter time, westerns with John Wayne at Cinema Park, big parties at our house in Wazir Akbar Khan, picnics in Paghman.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Summer, Brother, Party

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

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• Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Practice, Months

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

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• Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?

  Zhuangzi

  Funeral, Bird, Crow

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• The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Boys, Two

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

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