Kate Morton Quotes
The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.
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Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.
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The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden.
