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

• Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Life
  • Long
  • Business

• One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Death
  • Saith

• Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Gods
  • Valued

• On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Journey
  • Property
  • Human Life

• Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

  

  Andrew Ferguson
  • Journalists
  • Judgments
  • Incoherence

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

  

  Kate Morton
  • Companions
  • Valued