Kate Mosse Quotes
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.
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The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
