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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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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All of my husbands have robbed me blind.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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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.
