Kate Morton Quotes
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
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A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again.
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There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
