Kate Beaton Quotes
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
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I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.
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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
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I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
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Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.
