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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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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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
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Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.
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Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom's! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip.
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He seemed like a cool person to me. He sits by the benches with us while we are playing.
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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.
