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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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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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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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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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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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.
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If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
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I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.
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Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again, well the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them.
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To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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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.
