Kate Thompson Quotes

What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

Kate Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 16, 1959

Topics

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The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations.

Siri Hustvedt

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I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.

Tom Sturridge

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I often found that my favorite scene that I shoot is often one that I cut out, like in 'The Last Castle' and 'The Contender.' If you look at the deleted scenes, some of the best scenes never made it into the film.

Rod Lurie

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It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

Mickey Mantle

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You've just got to have it, man. Like, in this game of football, you can tell when you look at film who's more passionate about the game.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism.

Jordan Peele

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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

Dick Cavett

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I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.

Delta Burke

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What do you say to a person who is going to their death? Normally, we would just say, 'Hang in there, keep your hope up,' because there is hope until the very last second.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

Atom Egoyan

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I know I'm very lucky. A lot of it is quite normal, scooting around the supermarket with a shopping trolley and things like that. With one parent being a prince and the other being an amazing sort of... business woman.

Princess Beatrice of York

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I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

Shania Twain

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