Kate Thornton Quotes
I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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She looks at me. She does. She.
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I just look at the high and bright side of things
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I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
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If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.
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That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.
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From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.
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My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
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In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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I try to pick his brain as much as I can. Any chance I get, I try to talk to him.
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I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.
