Kate Morton Quotes

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

Kate Morton

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• I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writer
  • Storyteller

• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Create

• I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Storyteller

• My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Family
  • Amazing
  • Blessed

• The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Different
  • Society
  • Political

• Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Fire

• I'm not super easy to talk to a lot of the time. I'm just kind of weird.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Weird

• One trend I always go for is nautical: stripes, navy, rope knot belts, gold buckles.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Gold

• Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.

  

  Carol Kane
  • People

• What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

  

  Anna Jameson
  • Mind

• I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Opportunity

• Fight scenes are very physical for me. Sometimes I require my own body to move through them before I can tell where a character's likely to feel it.

  

  Lilith Saintcrow
  • Character

• A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

  

  Pope Francis
  • May
  • Christian

• When you're doing a movie, it's finite - you have a trajectory of where your character's going, and you follow that. Then the storybook closes.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Character
  • Movie

• It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
  • American
  • Leadership

• America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.

  

  Jim Edgar
  • People
  • World
  • America

• When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

  

  Lee Greenwood
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Bible

• Before it exploded one night, I went to a four grade, two room schoolhouse and we had textbooks from the 1940s.

  

  James Nicoll
  • Night

• I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.

  

  Bran Ferren
  • Business
  • Political
  • Attention

• Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

  

  Norman Jewison
  • Film
  • Propaganda
  • Storyteller

• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Something

• I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.

  

  Maluma
  • Time
  • Good
  • Heart

• Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • May
  • Death
  • Relationship

• I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Storyteller
  • Tale