Kate Morton Quotes
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
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I change my mind every five minutes. I'm very brutal with my own process. I throw everything away very quickly, and then I have to go out and rummage through the rubbish in the middle of the night to try to find a bit I'd written a week ago.
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Probably the advice I could follow more is the self-love sort of advice. I think, four out of every five days, I'm good at that, but certain situations can trigger self-doubt or cloudiness around how I feel about myself.
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[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.
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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
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All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
