Kate Elliott (Alis A. Rasmussen) Quotes

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

Kate Elliott

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• I never wrote my books especially for children.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Never
  • Books

• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Education
  • College

• I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Good
  • Like
  • Expect

• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Afraid

• Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • You
  • Lie
  • Others

• Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • More
  • Read
  • Then

• Retired life's good, man.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Man

• We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • American
  • Game

• It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Shy
  • Burn
  • Dolly Parton

• You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

  

  Francesca Lo Schiavo
  • Work
  • Together
  • Design

• There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Depends

• Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Mean
  • Poverty
  • Solitude

• The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Failure
  • Measure
  • Bitterness

• In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Tomorrow

• I meditate all the time. You know, I don't sleep much - it's a known fact that sleep is required more for the brain than the body because the brain needs sleep to dream. But I dream all the time. I dream when I'm awake, when I create work, with my eyes open. So who needs sleep?

  

  Ohad Naharin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Dream

• We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

  

  Kate Elliott
  • Matter
  • Made
  • Bounds