Kate Morton Quotes
She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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Ted Cruz ,when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.
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You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)
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I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.
