Kate Morton Quotes
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.
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'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
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We hate to give up any touchdown. We messed up. We were not in the correct defense and we didn't line up the right way.
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Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
