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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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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Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the most difficult attributes to act.
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I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'
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I think a person looks their best when they’re confident about themselves.
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Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].
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But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
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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.
