7 Quotes & Sayings By Kathleen Kennedy

Kathleen Kennedy was born in Long Beach, California. She is the youngest of seven children. She is dedicated to her family, friends and entertaining her readers with inspirational stories that encourage people to be themselves, speak their minds, and live life on the positive side. Her writing career began at age 14 when she wrote a book about becoming a diva for her school's dance team Read more

She has since become a best-selling author with many books under her belt including I am That Girl, Making of Me, Quotes about Life, Make Your Mark, Smart Moves for Success, Inspirational Quotes for Kids, Go for It! For Kids and The Starlight Saga. Kathleen has also had the opportunity to become an actress in many television shows and movies including Entourage, Entagadie Street & Entwined Bayou.

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Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project. Kathleen Kennedy
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I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then. Kathleen Kennedy
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I had a teacher who loved movies. He had a little theatre called The Flick, and he would let a bunch of us volunteer to work there, and he also let us make little movies in class. Kathleen Kennedy
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Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project. Kathleen Kennedy
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time. Kathleen Kennedy
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I've had filmmakers, I even had Bono come and talk to me about having a sequel to 'E.T.' help with an environmental message - I listened. I can certainly understand. I mean, the great thing about Bono is that everything he does is in service to a greater cause. Kathleen Kennedy