Kim Edwards Quotes

I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters.

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• We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Kings

• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

  Felicity Jones
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  • Character
  • Child

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Me
  • Know

• I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Love
  • Done
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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Time
  • World
  • Truth

• I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
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  • English
  • Feel

• How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  

  Edie Campbell
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  • Time

• I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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  • Brain
  • Poor

• Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Money
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  • Mom

• I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Me
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• It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Winning
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  • Tough

• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

  Zac Efron
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  • Laughter
  • Applause

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
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• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

  

  John O. Brennan

• Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • She

• Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Knowledge
  • Reading
  • Bible

• I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters.

  

  Kim Edwards
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