Kate Morton Quotes

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

Kate Morton

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LifeTimeMeMy LifeEverything

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

Maurice Saatchi

NatureGreatTimeCreativityKnow

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

Matt Taibbi

AmericaDoingCompanyStealingGet

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Jeannette Walls

LifeYouKnowGrayEverything

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

Sol LeWitt

LiveBelieveArtistI BelieveHim

All actors are naughty. We're all troublemakers - horrible, attention-seeking children. 'Me, me, look at me!'

Sienna Guillory

ChildrenMeLookNaughtyHorrible

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

Tom Hodgkinson

AgeSimpleYouNowWantPleasure

I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian.

Ruth Rendell

I AmChristianBadVeryAm

The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.

Mary Gauthier

GoodWorldMoreNeedPrettySongs

The relationship between stars and their fans is always ambivalent and often highly charged with contradictory and ambivalent emotions, of which the most powerful is need.

Michael Korda

StarsRelationshipPowerfulEmotions

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

Anthea Butler

RacismSchoolCatholic SchoolNuns

Nothing is forever, and I do still talk about when I'll come back to Britain. I'd love to come back and do a nice big juicy period drama. I don't understand it when people suddenly turn their back on Britain or Scotland. I'm so aware of it, and it's so much a part of who I am.

Ashley Jensen

LoveI AmPeopleBackDramaNice

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Peter Morgan

TimeI AmReadingEnoughEnjoyGuy

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