Kate Morton Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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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.
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A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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'The Dish' has been an amazing experience.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
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I was playing catch with the European audience.
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I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.
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Personally, I just want to hear good songs.
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
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Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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?
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“When she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”
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Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
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. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
