Kate Morton Quotes

. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.

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• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Teacher

• No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Man
  • Thanks

• The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.

  

  Jack Ma
  • American
  • Globalization

• You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • World
  • Age
  • Enlightenment

• Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Cancer
  • Stronger

• A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

  

  Angela Carter
  • Book

• 'The Dish' has been an amazing experience.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Beautiful

• Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

  

  Matthieu Ricard
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Friends

• I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

  

  Joan Collins
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.'

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Writing
  • Friends

• The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.

  

  Franz Boas
  • Work
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

  

  Mark McCormack
  • Quality

• I was playing catch with the European audience.

  

  Charles Olson

• I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.

  

  Kathleen Turner
  • People

• Personally, I just want to hear good songs.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Good

• Never mistake activity for achievement.

  

  John Wooden
  • Mistake
  • Achievement

• I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Boys
  • Cute
  • Seriously

• Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Hate
  • Civilization
  • Love Is

• Then come on up. DO everyone a favor and shut me up," he said. "Put down your money, pick up that ball, and let it fly, looker." "I'd rather not" People laughed. He flapped his arms and squawked like a chicken "Afraid you can't throw that far?" "I know I can" He lifted his hat in a small salute to my claim. Blond curls slipped out, then he plopped the hat back on and said, "I dare you.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Arms
  • Balls
  • Claims

• We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Life
  • Death
  • Awareness

• Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?

  

  Socrates
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• . . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Companions
  • Valued