Katherine Rundell Quotes
I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
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In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
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If you had asked me growing up what a stylist does or what a magazine editor does, I would have had no clue - how do you research something like that when you are a first-born child of an immigrant who only grew up knowing doctor, engineer, and lawyer as careers?
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
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I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
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I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.
