There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.
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Related I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t... MARGARET MITCHELL I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t... MARGARET MITCHELL I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t... MARGARET MITCHELL It will be foolish not to get your heart broken, even once. For having a broken heart makes you... SANHITA BARUAH Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. E... MELINA MARCHETTA His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible f... STEPHEN KING It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It i... STEVE MARABOLI What happens when 2 broken hearts meet? Sooner or later if the pieces fit then the broken pieces fro... FAYE HALL People—especially men—don't always know what they want. You try, and if it doesn't work, then yo... CHERISE SINCLAIR Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was... LEO TOLSTOY And in the end I came to realize that I was just as broken as all of them. All the people I tried ti... LAUREN VALENCIA If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo... ST. AUGUSTINE Let me pick up the pieces that lay scattered. Let me mend the heart, that I once with a lie shattere... PHILIP T. M. Every piece was numbered and identified. Then they put it on a barge and brought it right up here. T... CARROLL SAVAGE In my book Trust and Respect is vital to any healthy friendship no matter male or female. Once broke... TONY MCINTOSH Despereaux looked at his father, at his grey-streaked fur and trembling whiskers and his front paws ... KATE DICAMILLO That's the thing about trust. It's like broken glass. You can put it back together, but the cracks a... HOPE COLLIER Who knew that dog saliva can mend a broken heart? JENNIFER NEAL Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some... SALMAN RUSHDIE It is that machine that they put together in Toronto that is really at the heart of Arthur's operati... PAUL MCGUINNESS Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness MUNIA KHAN It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him... PAULA MCLAIN They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn’t broken already.... JAMES JOYCE Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. JIM HENSON He felt that race was not a characteristic that was a part of his identity, but one that was project... DEXTER PALMER But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man wh... JAMES STOCKDALE God can mend a broken heart but he must have all the pieces. UNKNOWN People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things... MARKUS ZUSAK It saddens me that the team was broken up like it was. I understand where [the owners] were coming f... JEFF CONINE How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend? TARRYN FISHER They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animal... HENRY WALTER BATES And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they... BIBLE Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work h... DEEPIKA PADUKONE The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. BIBLE And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and pluc... BIBLE The boy continued to listen to his heart as they crossed the desert. He came to understand its dodge... PAULO COELHO I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justifie... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD His words filled my heart to the brim. I loved him in a way I’d never be able to express in words.... BECCA FITZPATRICK He stood in a room, looking around, seeing thousands of himself. He banged the walls made of mirrors... AKSHAY VASU Together they’d run away. Together they could find a place to call home. Together they’d finally... HELLA GRICHI Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly th... ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly th... DAVID TYSON GENTRY She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind... KRISTAN HIGGINS Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... JODI PICOULT His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution;... ELIZABETH GASKELL Stars look like people to me... They are surrounded by darkness... But they all gather together and ... SS038NICK But Tom was not thinking about magic or struggle or the rest of his journey. He was enjo... MIKE CAREY The flip side is that there are a lot of issues that are unresolved, such as overcrowding. But it do... DOUGLAS MUZZIO A mirror or a heart if broken once, cannot be joined again to get the real image or true relationshi... KOWSALAPATHY I tolD him nt to Touch My Feet! His PLace wAz In my HEaRt ♥. He anSwerS bacK Wid a Smile "if it HA... MONIKA SINGH There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or i... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or i... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. RALPH WALDO EMERSON His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong RALPH WALDO EMERSON His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it
to hold the memory of a wrong. RALPH WALDO EMERSON He'd broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever ... LEIGH BARDUGO He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if t... CECELIA AHERN It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it wil... MICHAEL CHABON Only time can heal your broken heart just as only time can heal his arms and legs MISS PIGGY Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same. DEB CALETTI People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that havi... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i... DAVID CASSIDY A lot of people were not expecting us to put a relay in the top three together. But, we put it toget... COURTNEY CASHION It was once him and her, but she lost him and thought for a long time she wanted him back more then ... AMBER You are encouraged to be creative. I was creating something I enjoy, and it clicked with the script ... PAT LESTER When Adam kissed him, it was every mile per hour Ronan had ever gone over the speed limit. It was ev... MAGGIE STIEFVATER For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of
emotion,
That if by chance it be shak... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW They made orders for him to put the rock down and surrender and he raised the rock up over his head ... WAYNE DELK If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we wil... ROBIN R. MEYERS There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really... PEARL BUCK It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; t... CASSANDRA CLARE Words alike flames, they burn. leaving nothing, not even blood, but ashes, which are never identifie... CHARLES ADRIAN PACIS And the fifth year was the year they discovered the giant boulder at the edge of the playing field, ... KIMBERLY DERTING They both had a broken heart, but she turned out to be cold hearted, he didn't lose hope because tha... DAVID BENTO GUERRA Both traditions want people to think. They want people who are problem solvers and can take apart a ... MARLENE BARRON So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his or... MICHAEL LEVENSON . . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his ... WASHINGTON IRVING Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't... JAMIE FORD The Father and His Sons
A father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselv... AESOP Daniel didn't have to shoulder his punishment alone anymore. It was something they could do together... LAUREN KATE There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah,... ANNE LAMOTT If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaki... OSWALD CHAMBERS I need to be whole again. Even if it doesn’t last.” “It can’t last,” she said, starin... CASSANDRA CLARE Dom was thinking of doing something on his own, ... So we just put the two shows together. RON WOOD If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I l... SARAH DESSEN Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was emp... GEORGE ELIOT We'd seen it a million times before, since girls on the Tracks rarely knew of loyalty. She'd be gone... J.D. BREWER It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test fo... HENRY JAMES He said that [his Louisiana school] was going to have the best team they ever had. Him and his good ... LEE CAMPBELL A fool and his money together again. GREAT APE Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of ... KATE DICAMILLO when I am child I wanted to grow and feel in love....but now??how I wanted to be child again becoz i... REBEKAH DONAYRE It's not like a broken leg that you can put a cast on it and fix it. It's an ongoing thing, but we'r... BILL AUSTIN It came together so naturally. The skeleton was built, and all we had to do was put it together. DANNY SHAFER On Good Friday last year the SS found some pretext to punish 60 priests with an hour on "the tree." ... JEAN BERNARD I was just really proud of they way they pulled together as a team. They cheered for each other, and... DIANE JARVIS Words are God’s gift to mend a broken soul. CHIMNESE DAVIDS They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hu... DOROTHY PARKER [That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between... ORSON SCOTT CARD
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. KATE DICAMILLO I hate to cook and love to eat. KATE DICAMILLO I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern. KATE DICAMILLO I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. KATE DICAMILLO I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil... KATE DICAMILLO I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay... KATE DICAMILLO I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I w... KATE DICAMILLO I like to think of myself as a storyteller. KATE DICAMILLO I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s... KATE DICAMILLO I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head. KATE DICAMILLO I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. KATE DICAMILLO Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense ... KATE DICAMILLO Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ... KATE DICAMILLO It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch... KATE DICAMILLO I think of myself as an enormously lucky person. KATE DICAMILLO My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f... KATE DICAMILLO I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'... KATE DICAMILLO Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. KATE DICAMILLO Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. KATE DICAMILLO My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I ... KATE DICAMILLO Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a stor... KATE DICAMILLO There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love w... KATE DICAMILLO Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He k... KATE DICAMILLO Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you wri... KATE DICAMILLO And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, ... KATE DICAMILLO You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, wh... KATE DICAMILLO Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. KATE DICAMILLO My favorite six letter word is always because it promises so much. My favo... KATE DICAMILLO It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor. KATE DICAMILLO You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter. KATE DICAMILLO Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the ... KATE DICAMILLO She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. <... KATE DICAMILLO Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat i... KATE DICAMILLO There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup. KATE DICAMILLO He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35) KATE DICAMILLO Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, KATE DICAMILLO Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart... KATE DICAMILLO At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not bein... KATE DICAMILLO Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation. KATE DICAMILLO Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light. KATE DICAMILLO The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phras... KATE DICAMILLO Despereaux," she whispered. And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!" Reader, nothing is swee... KATE DICAMILLO But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you,... KATE DICAMILLO And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing. KATE DICAMILLO Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear re... KATE DICAMILLO He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that... KATE DICAMILLO Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, alwa... KATE DICAMILLO And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make ... KATE DICAMILLO the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty... KATE DICAMILLO Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thi... KATE DICAMILLO Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of ... KATE DICAMILLO Despereaux looked at his father, at his grey-streaked fur and trembling whiskers and his front paws ... KATE DICAMILLO Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful. And Despereaux's love for the Princess... KATE DICAMILLO Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he ... KATE DICAMILLO Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? O... KATE DICAMILLO Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and y... KATE DICAMILLO Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. KATE DICAMILLO But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is... KATE DICAMILLO This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, ... KATE DICAMILLO The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. KATE DICAMILLO Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mo... KATE DICAMILLO Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almo... KATE DICAMILLO Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best,... KATE DICAMILLO There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. KATE DICAMILLO Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light. KATE DICAMILLO He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing i... KATE DICAMILLO He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again. KATE DICAMILLO It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it. KATE DICAMILLO So many miracles have not yet happened. KATE DICAMILLO There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to cha... KATE DICAMILLO There is nothing worse than war in the summetime. KATE DICAMILLO Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And ... KATE DICAMILLO Even though various groups hold very different attitudes, it's important to all sides. It's an issue... MARK DICAMILLO When all is said and done, there's no Democrat on the horizon who's the odds-on favorite and there a... MARK DICAMILLO As time passes, there is a greater acceptance of gay and lesbian rights and greater support of anti-... MARK DICAMILLO (Brown) still remains among the top tier of personalities in California in terms of name recognition... MARK DICAMILLO Many voters are reappraising Schwarzenegger. They're a little puzzled because they're not sure which... MARK DICAMILLO The thing that's most striking to me is the impact that Schwarzenegger himself is having on his own ... MARK DICAMILLO What you see is kind of a balanced assessment. There are some policy positions where some voters are... MARK DICAMILLO These products all draw on Polaroid's heritage for innovation, ease-of-use, fun and immediacy. GARY DICAMILLO The next 12 months will be unmatched in Polaroid history for number and breadth of new products comi... GARY DICAMILLO August retail results were up in both cameras and film. In addition, the company continues to make p... GARY DICAMILLO We remain on plan to begin rolling out a number of new products, including our instant single-use ca... GARY DICAMILLO As we anticipated, the strong U.S. dollar and the Asian economic crisis had a negative impact. What ... GARY DICAMILLO I am particularly pleased that all of the members of our bank group agreed to remain lenders to Pola... GARY T. DICAMILLO Our focus is to generate strong positive cash flow and invest in specific market opportunities, such... GARY T. DICAMILLO Today's announcement puts Polaroid on a more solid footing to enter 1999 poised for profitable growt... GARY T. DICAMILLO Confusion is a continuous fight with self-knowledge, prejudice and insecurity. KATE I have an insane calling to be where i'm not, and a screaming urge to get out of here. There's no ro... KATE That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b... KATE If you are wondering why some people don't want to talk to you anymore, it could be that they actual... KATE Amazing how you can fake you're way through the day, by looking at the clock, and work untill it's t... KATE The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together! KATE More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song.
It shouldn't be this hard, and it s... KATE Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting. KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive...
But the thou... KATE Why do people get back in the box ?,
when deep down inside there isn't room enough.
And even though ... KATE Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis... KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
May... KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a... KATE Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes... KATE Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things.
But whe... KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
A billion ... KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think.... KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone... KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.......
Now I know what I did wrong all the ti... KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther... KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep. KATE Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few.. KATE Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ... KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast
Why is it impossible to make those silent moments last... KATE I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun,
but it looks like I have to settle for less again. KATE You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ... KATE If water would be running up,
would it wash away the spots,
underneath the places, where we usually ... KATE No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t... KATE Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up. LAUREN KATE With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and... KATE FORSYTH I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like... KATE MOSS Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. KATE MIDDLETON I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ... KATE KLISE Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi... KATE ATKINSON So the storm passed and every one was happy. KATE CHOPIN Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex... KATE GRENVILLE I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st... KATE WINSLET Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't tu... KATE WINSLET Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils tha... KATE WINSLET I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman. KATE WINSLET I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.' KATE WINSLET Life is short, and it is here to be lived. KATE WINSLET I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's... KATE WINSLET Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother... KATE WINSLET I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and d... KATE WINSLET I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to... KATE WINSLET Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes. KATE WINSLET Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. KATE WINSLET Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to... KATE WINSLET You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things. KATE WINSLET What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life... KATE WINSLET I do have impossibly high standards. KATE WINSLET Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all ... KATE WINSLET Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated. KATE WINSLET It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth. KATE WINSLET The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow. KATE WINSLET British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho... KATE WILLIAMS People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh... KATE WILLIAMS When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box... KATE WILLIAMS I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors. KATE WILLIAMS One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think... KATE WILLIAMS I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'... KATE WILLIAMS Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the... KATE WILLIAMS I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women... KATE WILLIAMS The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri... KATE WILLIAMS Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history... KATE WILLIAMS I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his... KATE WILLIAMS Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth... KATE WILLIAMS The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t... KATE WILLIAMS Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa... KATE WILLIAMS I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha... KATE WILLIAMS Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a... KATE WILLIAMS Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow... KATE WILLIAMS I like boxes because of the secrets they hide. KATE WILLIAMS The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or ... KATE WILLIAMS I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016... KATE WILLIAMS Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m... KATE WILLIAMS Acting was all I ever really wanted to do. KATE WALSH For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, ... KATE WALSH Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if ... KATE WALSH I struggle with control. KATE WALSH I loved campaigning for Obama. KATE WALSH My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. KATE WALSH I still like to make crank calls. KATE WALSH I would definitely love to be a parent. KATE WALSH No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g... KATE WALSH There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture. KATE WALSH I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess. KATE WALSH I've done every diet there is. KATE WALSH Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes. KATE WALSH I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try! KATE WALSH You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you. KATE WALSH I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc... KATE WALSH I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead. KATE WALSH I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes. KATE WALSH I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day. KATE WALSH People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from... KATE WALSH I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice. KATE WALSH I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine. KATE WALSH I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor... KATE WALSH I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails. KATE WALSH I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of... KATE VOEGELE I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations.... KATE VOEGELE I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb... KATE VOEGELE I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete. KATE VOEGELE My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these song... KATE VOEGELE More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i... KATE VOEGELE I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ... KATE VOEGELE Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences ... KATE VOEGELE We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele... KATE CLINTON They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee... KATE CLINTON