Lisa Morton Quotes

South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they're embracing it as a youth culture thing.

Lisa Morton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 11, 1958

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Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

Matthew Pearl

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I've never had an empty house. Ever.

Meredith Monk

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Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.

Stephen Kinzer

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Golf balls are sweet: dimpled and sometimes even smiling.

Steve Rushin

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In my opinion, the power of the mind in sport is vital. If you can overpower those physical risks mentally, you can get your body round it physically. I've made my body do things because of my mind that it shouldn't have been able to do.

Tony McCoy

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Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

Tom Lehman

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We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

Joyce Carol Oates

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That's kind of how my jobs have happened over the years. It's been referrals throughout the creature effects/make-up world. The drawings happen, and they see that it's a tall, skinny thing, and they go, 'Let's get Doug Jones for that.'

Doug Jones

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I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.

Chet Huntley

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I hold Bond dear to my heart. I've traveled the world as an ambassador for that character, and I had a bloody great time doing it.

Pierce Brosnan

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Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Phil Spector

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What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

Peter Jackson

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